Discovery of and access to identity information via OpenID + OAuth 2.0.
#openid
Information Card
“Information Cards are personal digital identities that people can use online.”
Portable Contacts 1.0 Draft C
“The Portable Contacts specification is designed to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web.”
Google API Directory
Complete listing of Google services with APIs, linking to developer guides, client libraries and references where available.
hueniverse
Best source for information on a lot of open web and identity technologies.
Gluecon
Conference exploring all the technologies relating to cloud-based computing, mash-ups etc. Looks at distributed APIs and data-sources and how to mash them all together.
Web Service Authentication APIs
For a project I’m working on, I’ve been looking at a lot of web service authentication/verification APIs lately. I thought folks might be interested in the results. Here are the methods available for a variety of web services/applications online, with links to their appropriate docs:
The Web At A New Crossroads
Chris Messina/Jyri Engestrom’s great manifesto of the people-centric/real-time web, based on portable identity and open standards.
Internet Identity Workshop
“The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on user-centric identity and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with.”
Best Practice for Site Developers
Best Practice for Site Developers
“This page holds ideas for people who maintain or build websites on things they can do now to support Data Portability.”