Web giants Facebook and Google unveil new features to promote the social web. A services that let users take their existing log-ins and deploy them across a number of sites.
Google’s Friend Connect, out now in beta, is pitched at webmasters who want to add social networking tools to their web sites. The search giant said in a blog posting that this is as simple as “cutting and pasting a bit of code”, and requires no advanced coding or technical ability.
“The goal is to facilitate an open social web,” said Google product manager Mussie Shore in the blog post. “Using open standards like OpenID and OAuth, Friend Connect makes it simple for people to instantly interact with one another on the sites that they already love to visit.
Facebook Connect, meanwhile, which was announced this Summer, has also been updated, according to a blog posting on its web site. However, as might be expected with a social networking site, Facebook is asking its users to create momentum.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook will add sites to the service where there is user demand, and asked subscribers to get in contact with the firms in question to request a connection.
Source: vnunet.com
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Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, the organisation set up to facilitate access to multiple online services with a single username and password.
The move follows Yahoo! last month announcing that its accountholders would be able to use any web site supporting OpenID without creating a separate username and password. A year ago, Microsoft pledged to integrate OpenID 2.0 with the CardSpace identity management systems developed in conjunction with Windows Vista.
While the OpenID Foundation serves a stewardship role around the community’s intellectual property, the Foundation’s board itself does not make any decisions about the specifications the community is collaboratively building. However the Foundation claimed that “By bringing on these companies and their resources, the OpenID Foundation will now be able to better serve the needs of the entire OpenID community. In 2008, we can expect to see a larger focus on making OpenID even more accessible to a mainstream audience, the development of a World-wide trademark usage policy (much like the Jabber Foundation and Mozilla have done), and a larger international focus on working with the OpenID communities in Asia and Europe.”
At the beginning of 2006, there were less than 500 websites where OpenID could be used. Today there are well over 10,000, according to the Foundation.
Source: itwire.com
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The Yahoo! OpenID (beta) which was announced earlier this month has just been launched. You can try it out right away.
This is expected to move the OpenID movement ahead considerably. All 250 million members of Yahoo are now able to log in to any website, not just Yahoo, that supports OpenID 2.0.
At this moment you can find very limited list at Yahoo which I hope will be expanded soon.
openid.yahoo.com
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Having to remember different passwords to sign onto various Web sites is a major annoyance in the Internet age.
On Thursday, a project aimed at ending the inconvenience by enabling a common log-in got a big boost when Yahoo Inc. unveiled plans to test the system starting Jan. 30.
The Sunnyvale company’s support gives the project, called OpenID, a major backer with 248 million users. It joins a smattering of smaller Web sites including LiveJournal, Smugmug and Technorati that already have joined the fold, representing another 120 million accounts.
Tired of having to remember multiple user names and passwords for different sites? OpenID provides one sign-on that will work for many Web services. To find out more, go to openid.yahoo.com.
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