Comments on: OpenID Makes Identity Easy http://thingelstad.com/openid-makes-identity-easy/ Jamie Thingelstad's personal blog Sat, 19 May 2012 15:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lou http://thingelstad.com/openid-makes-identity-easy/#comment-702 Lou Sat, 12 May 2007 02:59:41 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/2007/05/openid-makes-identity-easy/#comment-702 I think Google might have been taking steps to carve out a niche in the centralized identity arena. Just speculating but this may be something they would position down the road as an auth/ident provider... http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/Authentication.html I'm not sure as it stands if this is intended to allow you to leverage their identity api as your app's signin mechanism, like OpenID does, or if it's simply a way to let your site auth visitors with Google so you can mash-up the visitor's data. Like using Google calendar info with the visitor's permission for example. So who know. Maybe it's as simple as Google having a touch of not-invented-here on this one? I think Google might have been taking steps to carve out a niche in the centralized identity arena. Just speculating but this may be something they would position down the road as an auth/ident provider…

http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/Authentication.html

I’m not sure as it stands if this is intended to allow you to leverage their identity api as your app’s signin mechanism, like OpenID does, or if it’s simply a way to let your site auth visitors with Google so you can mash-up the visitor’s data. Like using Google calendar info with the visitor’s permission for example.

So who know. Maybe it’s as simple as Google having a touch of not-invented-here on this one?

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