Comments on: 2008, the year of Open Social Networks? http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/2008-the-year-of-open-social-networks/ Geschreibsel von Christian Scholz Wed, 23 May 2012 14:16:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gwyneth Llewelyn http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/2008-the-year-of-open-social-networks/#comment-494 Gwyneth Llewelyn Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:57:48 +0000 http://mrtopf.de/blog/web20/2008-the-year-of-open-social-networks/#comment-494 Wow, at least, OpenID seems to get some serious notice from everybody... SignpostMarv Martin will be happy <a href="http://(http://slopenid.net)" rel="nofollow">(http://slopenid.net)</a> to hear that, and it might also have Linden Lab use OpenID for the logins, as Zero Linden suggested. The advantage (according to Zero)? It means that corporations and universities could very easily use their internal OpenID servers to provide quick and efficient validation of their own users, thus relieving LL from that task. Of course, there is a lot more that can be done using OpenID for SL authentication, as SignpostMarv's gazillion projects around OpenID have shown. OpenID has been like SL: growing slowly, lots of skepticism, but very steadily earning acceptance. It's not an "instant popular" technology. It is taking its time, but, who knows, 2008 might be the year it reaches maturity... So download one <a href="http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/" rel="nofollow">OpenID Wordpress plugin</a> and install it on your blog ;) ... and then register an account with <a href="http://slopenid.net/," rel="nofollow">http://slopenid.net/,</a> of course ;) Wow, at least, OpenID seems to get some serious notice from everybody… SignpostMarv Martin will be happy (http://slopenid.net) to hear that, and it might also have Linden Lab use OpenID for the logins, as Zero Linden suggested. The advantage (according to Zero)? It means that corporations and universities could very easily use their internal OpenID servers to provide quick and efficient validation of their own users, thus relieving LL from that task.

Of course, there is a lot more that can be done using OpenID for SL authentication, as SignpostMarv's gazillion projects around OpenID have shown.

OpenID has been like SL: growing slowly, lots of skepticism, but very steadily earning acceptance. It's not an "instant popular" technology. It is taking its time, but, who knows, 2008 might be the year it reaches maturity…

So download one OpenID WordPress plugin and install it on your blog ;) … and then register an account with http://slopenid.net/, of course ;)

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