uPort is an open source software project to establish a global, unified, sovereign identity system for people, businesses, organizations, devices, and bots.
Source: uPort: Self-Sovereign Identity
#identity
A Clean Slate
I’m pretty excited to be setting up a brand new website here on my brand new domain, beau.blog. As part of being the company managing the new .blog domain name, we were able to reserve a single domain each, and I grabbed my own name, which I think is pretty darned neat.
My plan is to move my personal blogging over here to beau.blog, and keep Dented Reality as something of a lifestream/aggregation tool. I’ll probably experiment with some really non-traditional-blog display of the data over there, and keep this one pretty “bloggy”.
Anyway, here we are, at the dawn of a new year, also at the dawn of a new website. Even with all the Snapchats and Instagrams and Facebooks and whatnot out there, I still firmly believe that we should control our own online identity and presence, and that owning a domain, and controlling the information you present there, is the only way to do it. Viva la WordPress!
hello.js – JavaScript API for OAuth2 authentication and RESTful services
hello.js – JavaScript API for OAuth2 authentication and RESTful services
A client-side JavaScript SDK for authenticating with OAuth2 (and OAuth1 with a oauth proxy) web services and querying their REST APIs. HelloJS standardizes paths and responses to common APIs like Google Data Services, Facebook Graph and Windows Live Connect.
A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
Looking at different types of data involved in social networking and how to secure/control it all.
OpenID Connect
Discovery of and access to identity information via OpenID + OAuth 2.0.
oauth-php
“A PHP library for OAuth consumers and servers. Complete with an extensible OAuth store, including a full working implementation of a MySQL store.”
Account Manager Spec
Mozilla’s spec for the new Account Manager addition that’s coming to Firefox 4
Account Manager coming to Firefox
Account Manager coming to Firefox
“The Account Manager makes it incredibly easy for users to create new accounts with optional randomly generated passwords, and log into and out of them with just a click.”
How Firefox Contacts Auto-Discovery Works
How Firefox Contacts Auto-Discovery Works
Some cool details on real-world discovery for contact details.
XAuth Specification
Interesting new authentication/identity service/protocol/system spearheaded by Meebo. Allows all service providers to share the details of if a user has an account with them, and potentially share information about them as well.