OpenID

Making thmbnl
I've been using it, via Ma.gnolia, on my blog. I'll investigate the API in order to use it directly. Interestingly, accounts are OpenID-only.
Authenticated distributed search with OpenID and OpenSearch
"Both solutions require serious crypto and spec work to do properly."

Vancouver OpenID Mashpit

I wasn't going to go, but at the last minute I decided that attending the Vancouver OpenID 2.0 Mashpit would give me the opportunity to see Sxip's downtown Vancouver office and also run into people I knew, not to mention meet some others and learn a little about digital identity. (I was rewarded with a free hotdog and snacks. And a t-shirt.) I need to know this stuff, at the very least cursorily, so that I can support it when the time comes. The two days after the event, which featured a brief presentation by Dick Hardt—and a demo that didn't go so well (Simon Willison's OpenID screencast is a great visual introduction to the emerging standard)—and some "lightning talks" by Sxip and Bryght employees on what they've been working on. Heavily developer-centric, much of the discussion, especially with regards to trust, went over my head.

Steven Wittens, Boris Mann, and Dick Hardt Talk About Identity and OpenID

Dick did not say at this event the phrase "trust is social" like I'd hoped, but he did at least suggest trust was in part a business problem, not only computer science problem. If I'm understanding what he was trying to get at correctly, Boris was trying to suggest that we need a way to measure trust empirically, i.e. a way to store the concept in a database and represent it onscreen. The ensuing discussion sounded a lot like yak-shaving, and that's not a criticism, as I'm inclined to agree much about identity is a multi-layered problem.

In short, I wasn't the target audience of the mashpit, and I'm still left with lingering doubt about a) this is a problem in the first place: we need this when identity is, for many, disposable and b) how to explain to my friends that usernames and passwords are the past and that in the future you will use your URL to login everywhere. To say nothing about the fact that, almost necessarily because it was developer-centric, the event had no women speakers.

Here are the recaps of the Vancouver event I came across.

There's gotta be more. If you posted about the mashpit, please add a link in the comments.

James Walker Talks About OpenID in Drupal

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Submitted by sarahfelicity on Thu 2007-01-18 13:15 #

Hottie. Even though I didn't get what he was talking about. ;)

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Submitted by walkah on Thu 2007-01-18 13:15 #

No worries, neither did I or most of the rest of the room ;)

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Thu 2007-01-18 14:22 #

I understood right away the email verification part, but Dick didn't explain it very well. The whole discussion of trust was way over my head though.

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Steven Wittens, Hand Waver

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Submitted by Dries on Tue 2007-02-13 00:34 #

Preaching teh Drupal.

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Tue 2007-02-13 01:52 #

Mostly preaching teh OpenSearch and teh OpenID. But yes, also teh Drupal.

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