Michael Gracie 

Just over a year ago I installed an OpenID provider on this site, and have been using the URL here ever since to harass and harangue other blogging types (mostly fishy ones). Unfortunately, several months back I did some behind the scenes changes. They were merely back-office tweaks, since as you all know the theme/style [...]

Mixed bag Technology Google starts axing services, but Google Reader is safe for now. There might be something to all that attention data value, but it isn’t going to benefit you anyway. I’d be looking for a substitute reader (preferably desktop) just in case. New Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz on the [first] dotcom bubble – [...]

I’d barely gotten use to the 2.6 switch when a new version hit. The new automatic updating functionality kind of freaked me out (hence the delay), but since I’ve been tinkering with the code on this site since time immemorial I figured something was bound to break anyway. And much to my chagrin, nothing did [...]

Significant website now accepts OpenID! It just so happens to be Sourceforge, the bastion of open source software projects. It’s about time someone big started accepting OpenID for authentication, instead of just dishing out OpenIDs and acting oh so cool about it.

The blogosphere is abuzz this morning about the great news for OpenID – Yahoo! is now supporting the single user sign-on process. Kinda. While you can read the grand headlines at CNet, Mashable, or TechCrunch, cutting to the chase is what’s happening here. This is a pyrrhic victory for OpenID. Yahoo! is now allowing you [...]

I wouldn’t have used “finally” here. Rome wasn’t built in a day. On a side note, ye ole WP-OpenID+ plug-in bounty was closed a while back. Despite the enormous interest (less most of the interest), Will Norris completed the project himself. You can find the WordPress plug-in here – Will has provided a link to [...]

Having 2,000 feed items stuffed in one’s reader when returning from even the shortest vacation has me thinking about how to put said reader on vacation as well. MySpace and Facebook apps suck. That’s not what they really said, but The Silicon Alley Insider did point out how little they might really be worth. I’ve [...]

Couldn’t have said it any better myself: As of today Bloglines users can use their Bloglines login info to sign in to other sites that support OpenID login. This is good news, but more than a bit underwhelming at the same time. Big companies can announce all day long that they will now let you [...]

Now if we can figure out where the user fits in. Who, What, Why After Facebook’s spring pronouncement that applications “get in but they don’t get out,” chatter about ubiquitous usernames and friends lists in a brown paper sack took on new meaning. Almost immediately, the talk on the web (including here) was OpenID this, [...]

The title is a complex way of saying: give me the power to transfer data between sites I use, with the help of OpenID. There are other initiatives being worked on along the same lines, including OAuth. OpenID, TAS, OAuth…FOAF, SNAP, etc. etc. Fun times. PS: As data portability goes, the Social Network Portability Google [...]