Comments on: OpenID and the Social Graph http://blog.rachellovinger.com/2007/11/26/openid-and-the-social-graph/ Pursuing datameaningfulness, online and off Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:46:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: facts http://blog.rachellovinger.com/2007/11/26/openid-and-the-social-graph/#comment-753 facts Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:44:42 +0000 http://meaningfuldata.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/openid-and-the-social-graph/#comment-753 Got a little bit confused while reading :S Got a little bit confused while reading :S

]]> By: Tony Locke http://blog.rachellovinger.com/2007/11/26/openid-and-the-social-graph/#comment-719 Tony Locke Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:52:26 +0000 http://meaningfuldata.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/openid-and-the-social-graph/#comment-719 This post is spot-on. The second point about centralizing one's own 'social graph' could be addressed by including it in a FOAF document. The access issue could be handled by only allowing people in the FOAF to see it. This is like Facebook where only one's friends can see one's profile. In the post you mention that with your AOL OpenId, some sites don't work. My hunch is that this is because AOL don't publish a discoverable Yadis document. Try getting an OpenId from myopenid.com, I've found them to be very reliable. Finally I'd like to respond to Luigi Montanez's comment above (but bear in mind my bias as the author of Own-Id). I think the easiest method of delegating your OpenId depends on several factors: 1. Do you have an editable web page under your own domain name? 2. Are you comfortable with editing HTML? 3. Do you know what to add to the HTML? 4. Do you know the URL of your OpenId server? 5. How easy is it to add a CNAME record to your DNS? If the answers 1-4 are 'yes' and the answer to number 5 is 'not very', then it's easiest to go ahead and edit the HTML as Luigi suggests. If your DNS hosting company has an easy web interface (like GoDaddy) and you're a bit shaky on any of the other questions, then I'd suggest that www.own-id.com is for you. This post is spot-on. The second point about centralizing one’s own ’social graph’ could be addressed by including it in a FOAF document. The access issue could be handled by only allowing people in the FOAF to see it. This is like Facebook where only one’s friends can see one’s profile.

In the post you mention that with your AOL OpenId, some sites don’t work. My hunch is that this is because AOL don’t publish a discoverable Yadis document. Try getting an OpenId from myopenid.com, I’ve found them to be very reliable.

Finally I’d like to respond to Luigi Montanez’s comment above (but bear in mind my bias as the author of Own-Id). I think the easiest method of
delegating your OpenId depends on several factors:

1. Do you have an editable web page under your own domain name?
2. Are you comfortable with editing HTML?
3. Do you know what to add to the HTML?
4. Do you know the URL of your OpenId server?
5. How easy is it to add a CNAME record to your DNS?

If the answers 1-4 are ‘yes’ and the answer to number 5 is ‘not very’,
then it’s easiest to go ahead and edit the HTML as Luigi suggests. If your DNS hosting company has an easy web interface (like GoDaddy) and you’re a bit shaky on any of the other questions, then I’d suggest that http://www.own-id.com is for you.

]]> By: Luigi Montanez http://blog.rachellovinger.com/2007/11/26/openid-and-the-social-graph/#comment-717 Luigi Montanez Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:51:10 +0000 http://meaningfuldata.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/openid-and-the-social-graph/#comment-717 The process you describe with own-id.com is built into the OpenID spec, and it's known as OpenID delegation. Basically, you just need to put a few lines to code in the head of an HTML document, and you can use that URL as your OpenID. Click on my name and View Source to see what I mean. In my case, I use myopenid.com as my provider, but luigimontanez.com is my OpenID. Here's a plugin to make your Wordpress URL an OpenID via delegation: http://eran.sandler.co.il/openid-delegate-wordpress-plugin/ The process you describe with own-id.com is built into the OpenID spec, and it’s known as OpenID delegation. Basically, you just need to put a few lines to code in the head of an HTML document, and you can use that URL as your OpenID. Click on my name and View Source to see what I mean. In my case, I use myopenid.com as my provider, but luigimontanez.com is my OpenID.

Here’s a plugin to make your WordPress URL an OpenID via delegation:

http://eran.sandler.co.il/openid-delegate-wordpress-plugin/

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