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Hueniverse - Adventures in Micro Blogging
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Ideas, reviews, and thoughts about the world of Micro Blogging. Links to tools and resources for users and developers.
Recent Posts
Email Addresses as OpenIDs
One of the criticisms leveled against OpenID is that it uses HTTP URLs to identify users, and that users don’t understand URLs-as-identifiers (especially those who are not very technical). User Experience research confirms this. Email addresses...
Welcome to the (New) Hueniverse
Some of you might have noticed some big changes around here. I am happy to announce the first phase in the site redesign. The main focus was the site structure, moving from a linear blog to a more magazine-like site with a resource center area. The ...
Implementing WebFinger
The very nature of WebFinger is experimentation. This means we are likely to see implementation before a fully baked specification. Since at the moment the various bits and pieces of the protocol are somewhat scattered across multiple drafts, this po...
Implementing WebFinger
The very nature of WebFinger is experimentation. This means we are likely to see implementation before a fully baked specification. Since at the moment the various bits and pieces of the protocol are somewhat scattered across multiple drafts, this po...
OpenID and LRDD
Written by guest writer Dirk Balfanz. Dirk is a software engineer at Google (although expressing his personal views here), where he is working on Internet Identity and Data Portability-related projects. Prior to joining Google, Dirk worked and publis...
OpenID and LRDD
In my last article I wrote about the differences between user discovery and provider discovery. In this article, I will explain how both of these discovery flows can be easily be done using the “Link-base Resource Descriptor Discovery” (L...

