I have just come back from a short trip, which has given me some space off work and had some time to start thinking about getting things done.
So, one of the very first actions is to get into Issues Done then realized I could not login as my OpenID server -- Videntity is either down or gone.
Stefan Brands wrote a good entry to discuss about the problems of and with OpenID. Do check it out.
The model of OpenID suggests a decentralized approach which arguably is its strength and at the same time its biggest weakness. The service is no longer dependent on just the service provider but also the external authentication service provided by a third party.
Ideally, if all servers are available, everything works in yours and the dreams' favor. But at this moment, I am totally prohibited to enter any of my sites registered under my OpenID. How bad it is?
- yc, pffft
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
Introducing Jyte to fellow Malaysians - BN is going to win the coming election!
Jyte is a community-based webpage which (fundamentally) allows you to make claims and to receive opinions from the community. There are some reasons why I'm interested with it (Oh, by the way, Jyte stands for Just You Tell 'Em):
For the sake of promoting the use of OpenID and exercising Web 2.0, I have made such claim (that I disagreed):
Malaysia's upcoming election is recently a very hot discussion everywhere, contributed by the recent actions/reactions from our government against bloggers and the Internet users, I believe.
Let us know what you think and see you at Jyte. If you'd like to do some digging, click here.
yc, jyte-ing!
- It is an OpenID-enabled website. OpenID, in short, is an online identity that can be used anywhere. I had a blog entry about it a few months back.
- It is Web 2.0. If you haven't yet heard of this big name/thing (it's merely a concept anyway), see this picture.
- It's neat, needless to say. It is not a new idea but it is easy and it beats hosting polls in an online forum.
For the sake of promoting the use of OpenID and exercising Web 2.0, I have made such claim (that I disagreed):
Malaysia's upcoming election is recently a very hot discussion everywhere, contributed by the recent actions/reactions from our government against bloggers and the Internet users, I believe.
Let us know what you think and see you at Jyte. If you'd like to do some digging, click here.
yc, jyte-ing!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Get into OpenID!
I have been seeing an increasing frequency of the term OpenID online these days, blogs, wikis, devnets, ..
Interestingly, while browsing my del.icio.us network yesterday, I came across a free anonymous/temporary OpenID provider at:
Something of similar concept with My Trash Mail. I have some chats with Sarah as well the same night about the crappy social networks surrounding us these days. However, there are some good ones which help driving one's personal growth and goals,
So I created a goal that is to get into OpenID. If you are not familiar with the concept, it is basically a distributed and decentralized single sign on (SSO) solution. You will be given an OpenID which is basically a URL, e.g.
This URL can be used as an authentication mechanism for other accounts you have in the Internet, such as your blogs, social networks, emails, websites. With OpenID, as long as you are signed on, you will be signed into any other of your accounts automatically.
If you are interested to read more about it and what's going on behind the scene, please refer to:
I have also come across Atlassian Developer Blog about their SSO tool "Crowd" will be OpenID-enabled in the end of May. That sounds interesting.
As OpenID is growing in a high momentum, we will be seeing more and more companies and sites to support it in the very near future, such as Digg, Microsoft, ...
Stay tuned.
- yc, opened
Interestingly, while browsing my del.icio.us network yesterday, I came across a free anonymous/temporary OpenID provider at:
Something of similar concept with My Trash Mail. I have some chats with Sarah as well the same night about the crappy social networks surrounding us these days. However, there are some good ones which help driving one's personal growth and goals,
So I created a goal that is to get into OpenID. If you are not familiar with the concept, it is basically a distributed and decentralized single sign on (SSO) solution. You will be given an OpenID which is basically a URL, e.g.
This URL can be used as an authentication mechanism for other accounts you have in the Internet, such as your blogs, social networks, emails, websites. With OpenID, as long as you are signed on, you will be signed into any other of your accounts automatically.
If you are interested to read more about it and what's going on behind the scene, please refer to:
- http://www.openid.net/wiki/ (wiki)
- http://www.openidenabled.com (for developers)
I have also come across Atlassian Developer Blog about their SSO tool "Crowd" will be OpenID-enabled in the end of May. That sounds interesting.
As OpenID is growing in a high momentum, we will be seeing more and more companies and sites to support it in the very near future, such as Digg, Microsoft, ...
Stay tuned.
- yc, opened
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