{"id":139448,"date":"2010-01-05T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/OpenID-Connect-Proposed-as-an-Answer-to-the-Online-Identity-Problem-131154.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-05T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:13:00","slug":"openid-connect-proposed-as-an-answer-to-the-online-identity-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/139448","title":{"rendered":"OpenID Connect Proposed as an Answer to the Online Identity Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Identity is becoming a crucial component online and there is a definite need for a convergence of all the different identities users have set up over the years on various websites and services. Increasingly, a number of identity providers, Facebook, Twitter, Google, are becoming the de facto standard providers. At the same time, a number of technologies are trying to solve the interconnectivity problem most notably efforts like the Facebook Connect API, OpenID and recently OAuth.<\/p>\n

At this point though, everyone is trying to do things a little differently and none of these solutions is a direct competitor or replacement to the other. Facebook Connect is getting a lot of attention and for good reason. It’s a great way of enabling people to log into a website or share their data and content with various services without having to create new accounts every time or sharing their existing credentials. The obvious problem is that, being a Facebook product, the identity component is tied to the social network.<\/p>\n

Google is taking a more open approach with Google Friend Connect, but it’s not perfect either. It uses the Google account as an identity, but can also use any OpenID provider and, recently, also Twitter profiles. Chris Messina, an open source advocate involved with the OpenID project… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Identity is becoming a crucial component online and there is a definite need for a convergence of all the different identities users have set up over the years on various websites and services. Increasingly, a number of identity providers, Facebook, Twitter, Google, are becoming the de facto standard providers. At the same time, a number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}