[OpenID] myspace, facebook questioned on openid

[Elliot Onn]

Great post. Via Slashdot, an article on the need to open up these social networks.

http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/08/open_social_net

Have a good week!
Elliot

Story Henry said:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> 
> On 4 Aug 2007, at 13:01, Steven Livingstone wrote:
> 
>> np Henry. Good blog post.
>> 
>> I don't know if you followed any of the text discussion we were having
>> at the bottom, but we were quite perplexed when there was a mention of
>> OpenId not quite fitting (to paraphrase) because you might want multiple
>> identities and/or profiles.
> 
> I did not follow that, but I completely agree.
> 
>> Kinda the point of OpenID IMHO.
> 
> yes. I think that shows that they were really ducking the issues. In fact
> I would say that this panel was worth watching for the universes of things
> that were not said, how they were avoiding the issues, and blinding
> themselves.  Nothing very interesting was really said otherwise :-) But
> then one should not expect too much from CEOs. They have investors
> breathing down their necks ;-)
> 
>> steven http://livz.org
> 
> 
> Hi Steven and others, I see you have an account openid.org. Could you get
> that guy to generate real foaf files please. It's a complete mess.  It
> should be good when you can at least to the following.
> 
> cwm http://steven.openid.org/foaf  | less
> 
> (Then of course one would have to check that it means what he things it to
> mean)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>> CC: general at openid.net From: henry.story at bblfish.net Subject: Re:
>>> [OpenID] myspace, facebook questioned on openid Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007
>>> 12:51:14 +0200 To: weblivz at hotmail.com
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the link. I agree. I don't think they really wanted to make
>>> too much noise about the limitations of their business model. Under
>>> pressure they even tried to state that they were not in the social
>>> networking business at all, because none of their users understood
>>> that term...
>>> 
>>> I have written up my take on this here:
>>> 
>>> http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/social_networking_3_0
>>> 
>>> Henry
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 4 Aug 2007, at 10:14, Steven Livingstone wrote:
>>> 
>>>> For anyone interested, i recently watched the Stanford Always On 
>>>> event where "Social Networking 3.0" was discussed with the following
>>>> folks:
>>>> 
>>>> - Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Facebook - Travis Katz, SVP, MySpace
>>>> International - Rich Rosenblatt, CEO, Demand Media - Gina Bianchini,
>>>> CEO, Ning - Karl Jacob, CEO, Wallop - Charlene Li, Senior Analyst,
>>>> Forrester Research
>>>> 
>>>> I asked them about OpenID support (maybe 10 or 15 minutes into the 
>>>> broadcast)... and got some interesting responses. Not entirely sure
>>>> some of them understand what OpenID does.... but i guess these are
>>>> the challenges of opening up.
>>>> 
>>>> Archive is here : http://tinyurl.com/2p7q55
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Steven http://livz.org
>>> 
>> 
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