Simon Willison’s Weblog

Getting OpenID Into the Browser. David Recordon makes the case for online identity management as a key browser feature (I like the “your browser is currently locked” concept), and argues that Gears is in a great position to deliver it.

# 3rd December 2008, 10 am / browsers, david-recordon, gears, identity, openid

France Telecom Supports OpenID! France Telecom is the parent company of Orange. Apparently all 40 million France Telecom subscribers now have an OpenID.

# 25th September 2007, 12:49 am / david-recordon, francetelecom, openid, orange

Six Apart: We Are Opening the Social Graph. Six Apart put their cards on the table with respect to the social graph problem—focusing on OpenID, XFN and FOAF as enabling technologies. Be sure to watch the screencast demo of their new social graph visualisation tool.

# 20th September 2007, 9:19 pm / david-recordon, foaf, openid, sixapart, socialgraph, xfn

Thoughts on the Social Graph. I think social network portability will happen within the next year.

# 17th August 2007, 11:47 pm / brad-fitzpatrick, david-recordon, openid, socialgraph, socialnetworkportability

A Change of Pace. David Recordon is heading back to Six Apart as Open Platforms Tech Lead, where it looks like he might get to work on social network portability.

# 17th August 2007, 11:46 pm / david-recordon, openid, sixapart, verisign

OpenID Bootcamp Tutorial. Slides from the OpenID Bootcamp tutorial I gave this morning with David Recordon.

# 25th July 2007, 12:39 am / bootcamp, david-recordon, openid, oscon, oscon07, speaking