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• Crowdsourcing the Demand for OpenID!

  Brian Ellin of JanRain wrote up an awesome app running on AppEngine over the past week which lets you browse the web and " Demand OpenID ". Really simple site which shows a running tally of the top sites (currently Twitter and Flickr) where people want to be able to login with OpenID. It includes a dead simple bookmarklet for you to add your demand as you're browsing around. Marshall over on ReadWriteWeb wrote about it as well; Demand.OpenID.net: A One Click Call to Action . Read More... Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 4:59 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, w00t

• Ma.gnolia Goes OpenID Only

  Chris Messina mentioned this to me yesterday as we're both up in Seattle for a Microsoft Technology Summit, but Ma.gnolia is now only accepting OpenIDs for new signups! This is also reflected in their login page which now defaults to OpenID and allows you to select from various OpenID Providers (including the "Yahoo! button") as well as a traditional username and password for existing users. Ma.gnolia was one of the earlier supporters of OpenID so I'm both excited and grateful that they're helping Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:12 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology, w00t

• Some Awesome New Tech This Past Week

  eTech and SXSW were definitly two of the hot places to announce new services. It started exactly a week ago where Tom Coates from Yahoo! Brickhouse birthed a Fire Eagle which is a location service. I'm really interested in Fire Eagle because of how simple it really is. Some applications update your location (like Dopplr does for me) and then you can grant access to other applications to lookup your location. This morning Ben announced the plugin he wrote for Movable Type which integrates Fire Eagle. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:07 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology, w00t

• Awesome New Tech This Past Week

  eTech and SXSW were definitly two of the hot places to announce new services. It started exactly a week ago where Tom Coates from Yahoo! Brickhouse birthed a Fire Eagle which is a location service. I'm really interested in Fire Eagle because of how simple it really is. Some applications update your location (like Dopplr does for me) and then you can grant access to other applications to lookup your location. This morning Ben announced the plugin he wrote for Movable Type which integrates Fire Eagle. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:07 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology, w00t

• OpenID Foundation Japan Chapter Announcement

  More on this later, but this morning in Tokyo we announced the formation of a Japan chapter of the OpenID Foundation . Seems it made the front page of Google News in Japan! Read More... Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:15 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, w00t

• OpenID is on Google News

  I thought being on Google News once in a lifetime was amazing, now twice! Today is exactly one year and one day after the last time OpenID was on Google News because of the Microsoft announcement at RSA. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:43 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, w00t

• Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! Join the OpenID Foundation's Board

  This morning the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. This is really great news as it shows just how far OpenID has come since brad first announced it in 2005 . Thanks to everyone who has worked with us over the past two and a half years to get OpenID to the point that it is! I'll try to keep this list updated of people writing about it: O'Reilly Radar - OpenID Foundation - Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo ReadWriteWeb - OpenID Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:04 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology, w00t

• The World by Dopplr

  Pretty cool map of the World given all the trips on Dopplr last year. They posted more stats on trips as well. Read More... Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 2:08 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, w00t

• An Exciting Morning!

  This morning two awesome things shipped: - the Action Streams plugin for Movable Type - Yahoo's OpenID Provider which you can see in action on Plaxo You can read more about the Action Streams plugin on Six Apart news as well as a more technical post on MT.org. I'm extremely excited about it since for the first time in a few years my website isn't just a black page with a giant photo of me wearing sunglasses and a link to my blog. It was also really great working with the Movable Type team, especially Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:04 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, w00t

• Cal has an Awesome Card!

  Read More... Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:50 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: w00t

• OpenID Provider x2

  Just saw that Blogger's beta now is an OpenID Provider as well! Two providers in one day, awesome! http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-feature-blogger-as-openid-provider.html Read More... Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 3:09 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, w00t

• Login to CNN Politics with OpenID

  You have to create an account first (sweepstakes rules I'm guessing) but we can now add CNN to the list of OpenID supporters! Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:13 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, w00t

• Data Portability

  In other news, heading to Macworld later today. :) Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:37 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, w00t

• Community...Rock On!

  At the Internet Identity Workshop again today, awesome to see the community just working! Guys from Vidoop leading a conversation on OpenID privacy and security. Joseph Smarr of Plaxo leading a conversation on OpenID user experience. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:12 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: OpenID, w00t

• If you only read one blog post today...

  OpenSocial - http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/open-social-a-n.html Keep your eye on Six Apart News as well the next few days. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:42 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: social network, technology, w00t, socialgraph