New ‘OpenID Connect’ Proposal Could Solve Many of the Social Web’s Woes. David Recordon, one of the key architects of OpenID and other identity technologies that have emerged over the past five years, has envisioned a new direction for OpenID.
His proposal, which was drafted with input from several people in the OpenID community, is called OpenID Connect. At the highest level, it essentially rebuilds OpenID on top of OAuth 2.0, combining the two popular open source systems for authenticating users and letting them share data with social websites and applications. “OpenID Connect is an attempt to pull the best pieces of two separate technologies together, to create a single technology stack that’s simpler for everyone to use,” Recordon tells Webmonkey. The proposed approach combines several interactions around logging in and sharing data with a website or application into one simple step.
It also lets a user log in using either a profile URL, a blog URL or an e-mail address. Why I’m excited about the Google Social Graph API. The Google Social Graph API is a new programming API that allows developers to expose social relationships embedded in web sites.
What does this mean for regular folks like you and me? Read on. Do you ever feel like your personal information is spread across the web in a whole bunch of separate places? An account here, a profile there?