PUBLIC MARKS with tags openid & oAuth

"making more data available from OpenID users is the first essential step that we must take to regain our footing in the marketplace"

OAuth, OpenID…they sound like the same thing and they kind of do vaguely similar things But I’m here to tell you, OAuth is not Open ID. They have a different purpose. I’ve been playing around with OAuth a bit in the past couple weeks and have a grip on what it’s aiming to do and what it’s not aiming to do. To start with, here’s what OAuth does have in common with Open ID

The Hybrid Protocol is a result of the ongoing effort by the OpenID and OAuth communities to make these protocols more useful for users and websites. Google is working together with the OpenID community to standardize the new protocol as a formal OpenID extension.

Netvibes is hiring a PHP developer to work on the Netvibes widget platform.

"Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should exist outside of any proprietary tool or vendor. We need a DNS for Identity. A distributed File System for data. This page will list the standards and contributors who are making it happen."

Netvibes is hiring 2 web developers to work on UWA, the widget technology from Netvibes.

Netvibes is hiring 2 web developers to work on the Netvibes widget platform.