Will Norris talking about things OAuth, OpenID, and Diso at WordCamp. Demonstrates/fakes an OAuth authentication and authorization process with WordPress for iPhone app.
Does this matter? OAuth support is slated for WP 2.7, and people are finally getting smart about linking all this stuff without throwing passwords around “like confetti.”

Posted August 16, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: authorization, DiSo, identity management, OAuth, openid, WordCamp. One Comment.

I just realized OAuth support is slated for inclusion in WordPress 2.7. It’s not in trunk yet, but that’s no reason not to get up to speed. Scott Gilbertson says OAuth and OpenID are foundations to the open social web, giving apps like WordPress a “secure, centralized means of identifying yourself and a way to [...]

Posted August 7, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: OAuth, openid, wordpress. One Comment.

Following news that Yahoo! is joining the OpenID fray, it appears Google is dipping a toe in too. While those two giants work out their implementations, others are raising the temperature of the debate on IDM solutions. Stefan Brands is among the OpenID naysayers (David Recordon’s response), while Scott Gillbertson sees a bright future. [...]

Posted January 19, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: google, identity, identity management, idm, openid, single sign on, sso. One Comment.

Ars notes that Yahoo! supports OpenID. Yeah, that OpenID.

Posted January 18, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: identity, identity management, idm, openid, single sign on, sso, yahoo. One Comment.

The conversation on Code4Lib about OpenID reminded me to finish a draft I’d started at Identity Future on the topic.
The short of it is that Marc Canter says that single sign-on is good, but “we need the attribute exchange to make this thing really take off.”
Then all the skeptics will realize that the authentication [...]

Posted March 25, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: attribute exchange, identity management, idm, libraries, marc canter, openid. One Comment.