Wekti.com | Tech News and Opinion » OpenID http://wekti.com Geek stuff... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:15:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Disqus commenting system to support Facebook Connect http://wekti.com/2008/12/17/disqus-commenting-system-to-support-facebook-connect/ http://wekti.com/2008/12/17/disqus-commenting-system-to-support-facebook-connect/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:20:10 +0000 Steve http://wekti.com/2008/12/17/disqus-commenting-system-to-support-facebook-connect/ disqus-logo Disqus, the JavaScript-based commenting add-on for blogs and community sites, will soon be getting Facebook Connect support, allowing users to log into Disqus and post comments on blogs with their Facebook account.  The new upgrade will also allow blog owners to optionally send events back to Facebook once a user posts a comment.

The Facebook activity feeds will likely be the number one reason folks choose to implement Facebook Connect ahead of Google Friend Connect, although I can’t see a reason why most places won’t end up supporting both.

Ultimately, though, I still think that Facebook Connect will probably win, although I can’t exactly figure out why they didn’t just support OpenID and OAuth instead of writing their own authentication system.  I would guess it has something to do with laziness, perhaps.  I can’t figure how it would be to a competitive advantage for them to not offer OpenID support, but maybe someone else out there has a good theory on why.

[c/o CNET News]

]]> http://wekti.com/2008/12/17/disqus-commenting-system-to-support-facebook-connect/feed/ 0 Twitter to get Facebook Connect, MySpace integration (eventually) http://wekti.com/2008/12/16/twitter-to-get-facebook-connect-myspace-integration-eventually/ http://wekti.com/2008/12/16/twitter-to-get-facebook-connect-myspace-integration-eventually/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:31:18 +0000 Steve http://wekti.com/2008/12/16/twitter-to-get-facebook-connect-myspace-integration-eventually/ twitter_logo_s I missed the updates about this in the evening on Monday.  Shortly after announcing integration with Google’s Friend Connect service on Monday, the Twitter team was quick to follow up (in Tweets, no less) that they are planning to integrate with Facebook Connect.  Later updates in the company blog were more to the point:

Integrating with MySpace as well as Facebook Connect will require some development effort on our part. Now that we have 13 software engineers working at Twitter and our reliability continues to improve we’re getting closer to integrating with your favorite social networks.

The subtle, read-between-the-lines message being sent seems to be: it was easier to integrate Google Friend Connect first, and the other ones will take some time.  Whether that’s what Twitter intended to say with their blog post or not, I’m not sure.  Nonetheless, I find it all amusing.  I think I am easily amused, though.

Whether Twitter had intended it or not, the early integration with Google Friend Connect and subsequent announcement was a bump for Google’s identification service.  Was it because Twitter thought Google’s reach was further than Facebook, and pairing with them first was a good move purely from a PR perspective?  I doubt it, but who knows.

]]> http://wekti.com/2008/12/16/twitter-to-get-facebook-connect-myspace-integration-eventually/feed/ 0 Google Friend Connect ups the ante with Twitter integration http://wekti.com/2008/12/15/google-friend-connect-ups-the-ante-with-twitter-integration/ http://wekti.com/2008/12/15/google-friend-connect-ups-the-ante-with-twitter-integration/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:21:15 +0000 Steve http://wekti.com/2008/12/15/google-friend-connect-ups-the-ante-with-twitter-integration/ friendconnect-logo Google announced on their Official Google Blog today that the Google Friend Connect Service now features Twitter integration, allowing you to see who of your friends on Twitter are using the same site you’re using, or tweet about the site you’ve discovered.

Read the full post with screenshot here.

Considering that Facebook was rumored to be making private bids to buy Twitter back in November of this year (c/o TechCrunch), and also considering that Marc Andreessen is sitting on the board for both Twitter and Facebook, it’ll likely be just a matter of time before Facebook responds to Google’s Twitter integration move.

Meanwhile, last week in a Facebook Developer blog post, the team at Facebook put together an 8 minute Mac vs. PC advertisement, er I mean, video tutorial on how to integrate Facebook Connect into your blog site (screencap below).

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(Source: Facebook Developers News)

]]> http://wekti.com/2008/12/15/google-friend-connect-ups-the-ante-with-twitter-integration/feed/ 0 Microsoft picks up OpenID Foundation co-founder http://wekti.com/2008/12/11/microsoft-picks-up-openid-foundation-co-founder/ http://wekti.com/2008/12/11/microsoft-picks-up-openid-foundation-co-founder/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:36:12 +0000 Steve http://wekti.com/2008/12/11/microsoft-picks-up-openid-foundation-co-founder/ vcard Microsoft recently recruited OpenID Foundation co-founder Dick Hardt as a  new partner architect on consumer, enterprise and government identity solutions.

You may remember Hardt from his work on Sxipper, the identity plug-in for FireFox.  Hardt has also co-authored the OpenID 2.0 specification

This could represent a move by Microsoft towards supporting OpenID interoperability within its consumer and enterprise products.  OpenID has been getting more attention lately, especially with the recent announcements from Google regarding its Friend Connect service.

More details at The Register.

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