[OpenID] Created OpenID twitter group at twibes.com

[Odin Omdal Hørthe]

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hehe, are suggesting that I don't want a "open, free, distributed internet"?
> Nobody has convinced me that it is possible for "OpenID", because of the
> trust issue. If you can convince me I will be the first one to support you.

Oh well, I won't. :-)

But it'll happen. You'll see. We've already got web of trusts (WoT)
for a very long time. They're effective. I'm sure we can build
something like this around the social web.

On my homepage, I list my OpenID's, and also all my profiles (all
«me's» on the web). Those profiles link to my friends and people who
have vouched for me, they link back to me using XFN or FOAF (friend of
a friend), so it'll be easy for a machine to read all of this
information. OpenID is just a small part of it all.

Then, by some method we can easily know who to trust. I won't have any
spammers in my friend list, and I'm sure my friends won't and those
friends either. The bond gets weaker as it gets out. But it's always
possible for sites to also have a white list of openid-providers they
trust, so that if one friend have myopenid or whathaveyou all the
others can get verified as real, nice, trustworthy people with a
centre on that person.

Or something. :-)

To be frank, I haven't really thought much about it as it's not my
primary interest, -- but I'm quite sure someone has, and I'm even more
sure that we'll fix it. But TTT (things take time).

Anyway, it won't happen by saying it won't happen!

(I was originally sending this private, but there may be someone who
want to explain all my misconceptions :P)
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Odin Hørthe Omdal <odin.omdal at gmail.com>
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