Online identity verification system OpenID gains steam as prominent web companies adopt its use.
Recently, AOL announced that it will implement the OpenID system for its 63 million subscribers. In the wake of that news, Digg’s Kevin Rose announced at a web conference in London that the popularity website will accept OpenID and become an OpenID provider.
“We want to give people the freedom to move around online and this is a way to do it,” Rose said.
Yahoo! and Microsoft have also become OpenID adopters.
Users of OpenID can identify themselves using a URI that they own (a blog or home page, for example). They can then log on to OpenID-enabled sites without registering or opening a new account — they only need to sign in once to an OpenID provider. This addresses the single sign-on problem that users encounter when signing up for various web services.solves
Big-name web companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft has also addressed the SSO problem by implementing identity systems in their infrastructure.
Well, I *did* try it once, but I got this:
Live Search is better than Google’s? Call me dogmatic, but I’ll place my bet on Google any day.
Less than a week after it’s release, a nasty vulnerability crops up:
So, no thanks, IE7: slick-UI-page-zooming-integrated-feed-reader-pluggable and all that jazz considered.
I haven’t gotten around to uninstalling Windows XP Media Center on Mathilda. In fact, I may not want to. See, I’ve come to — gasp! — like Mathilda’s utterly backward (Windows? Shame on me!) but totally slick Media Center UI. But I’m still a Linux guy, so there has to be a compromise. So…
Mathilda, meet Evey. Evey runs on Ubuntu Breezy. She’s a VMWare Server instance, of course — a clone, actually, of a readily available image from the VMWare Community site. I’m doing things on her that will give her a personality all her own. For one, she’s now my staging server for testing Drupal themes. A quick sudo apt-get install whatever will morph her into a full-blown Linux sys-ad platform.
Mathilda and Evey work well together. I’ve alloted half of Mathilda’s RAM to Evey, and they’re sharing it very well. I haven’t installed an SMP kernel on Evey yet, but I’ve prepped her up to recognize the Core Duo, too.
(If the anthropomorphism is getting to your nerves, please don’t. I’m used to naming my boxes. My previous desktop was Iris. My test servers at work are Hiraya, Mithi, Padme, Arwen, Galadriel, and Eowyn. In my previous work at PhilRice, the servers were Maui, Sabel, and Ligaya (named after the branches). When I was in NIA, I had an HP/Compaq Proliant ML370 named Leia (srv-win2k-dc-01 was just too boring). My first PC — an XT machine with a whopping 16MB RAM — was called Chico, after the now-defunct Pinoy clone brand.)
She’s spiffy and shiny. And she’s got a Core Duo and 1GB RAM. I love her already.
She runs Windows XP Media Center Edition (whatever that is), though. But in a while, I’ll be giving her the respect she deserves — nothing less than a Fedora Core 5 or Ubuntu Dapper will do for her.
She’s a Dell Inspiron E1505, by the way. Pics to follow.
From Monkey Bites:
Microsoft’s CodePlex is an online open source development home base for C#, Visual Studio and .NET programmers. It’s a place where developers can track their projects, post builds, and interact with other community members. Think of it as a SourceForge for the .NET set.
Okay, I’m not a developer (except for the occasional dabbling in PHP and Perl — but that’s not exactly “development”), but I’ve been hearing good things about .NET. I remember someone saying it’s the only good thing that came out of Redmond.
And for Microsoft to host open source projects for .NET is something worth watching. I wonder how open source developers will take this.
