AOL Deploys OpenID
On Wednesday, John Panzer of AOL announced that AOL has deployed OpenID on top of their identity system. What this means is that if you have an AOL identifier (including AIM), you've got an OpenID and can use your AOL identifier to login to OpenID enabled Web sites. Here's what John says: Here's where we are today: Every AOL/AIM user now has at least one OpenID URI, http://openid.aol.com/. This experimental OpenID 1.1 Provider service is available now and we are conducting compatibility tests. We're working with OpenID relying parties to resolve compatibility issues. Our blogging platform has enabled basic
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Mashups, Web Data, and APIs
Frank Mantek, Jeff Barr, Dan Theurer, and Kevin Lawver(click to enlarge) I decided to take in Rohit Khare's panel on Next Wave (Business) this morning. This was part of the developer track that has normally been Rohit was kind enough to invite me to the panel dinner last night. It was fun and I Dan Theurer from Yahoo! was first up and used the theme "What Powers Web 2.0 Mashups?" Dan introduced the Yahoo! Developer Network. The first APIs that Yahoo! launched were the search APIs a little over a year ago. He showed a long list of APIs that
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