Over the past five years, security topped the list of concerns about cloud computing. Rightfully so, if security is truly a concern,…
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Janrain lands $15.5M to supercharge the social web
Janrain, the Portland, Oregon-based software-as-a-service company, has closed on $15.5 million in funding. Janrain, which makes a social log-in platform, plans to put the money toward general growth initiatives such as hiring and product development, CEO Larry Drebes said in an interview.…
Read MoreEnole: It's Like OpenID for Your Phone
An ambitious startup named Enole is trying to bring the spirit of OpenID to the mobile environment, by building a near-field communications (NFC) platform that developers can build on to get devices to carry their owner's identity. It's sort of like OpenID for your phone.…
Read MoreWeekend Vid Picks: I Want My Music Web TV
The MTV video music awards are on tonight, but as the tired joke goes, when was the last time MTV really played…
Read MoreRumor Has It: Apple to Refresh MacBook
AppleInsider’s Kasper Jade today reports that Apple (s aapl) has new plans for its workhorse laptop, the MacBook. This will be the…
Read MoreAdd Single Sign-on to Your Web Site for Free With RPX
Single sign-on adoption continues to spread, as increasing numbers of web sites embrace technologies such as OpenID, Facebook Connect and OAuth, which…
Read MoreWith Facebook, Has OpenID Moved Closer to Being the De Facto Login Standard?
Facebook today rolled out support for the digital identity standard known as OpenID, the latest and to date most successful attempt to…
Read MorePalm Pre Losing Mojo Each Day the SDK is Held Close
Just yesterday, I was on camera saying how much I’m looking forward to the Palm (s PALM) Pre. With my first-gen iPhone…
Read MoreMySpace Launches ID Effort, Open Platform
Now that Facebook has launched its Facebook Connect and Google (s GOOG) countered with Friend Connect, surprise surprise, MySpace (s NWS) is…
Read MoreSocial Web's Big Question: Federate or Aggregate?
Inventor and tech-philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect. And just like that he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big question facing the social web depends on the direction it needs to take. A sharp increase in the number of web services and social networks has many of us yearning for a single sign-on, which has lead to the idea of "federation." On the flip side, we also want one place to manage our diverse web services in one place.…
Read MoreFirstPagr can do even more than it thinks it can
I just received a request from a client asking if there was a site where they could create a page that staff…
Read MoreOpenID Has Big New Friends
Digital minimalists got a big lift this morning when Microsoft, Google, VeriSign and IBM all said they’d begin supporting OpenID, the open-source…
Read MoreYahoo Supporting OpenID; Partners With Plaxo
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has decided to support for OpenID, the decentralized identity system that allows users to sign into multiple sites with a……
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