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Lessons learned from Windows Live ID's foray into Open ID

Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 8:36 AM by alogan
Jorgen Thelin just posted Windows Live ID OpenID Community Technology Preview Status Update (August 2009) . Community Technology Previews must be expected to come and go. They are used to get feedback from developers, validate ideas, disappear and come Read More...
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Report Abuse on the “consent” / delegation screen

Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 8:22 AM by alogan
Earlier today when I saw a ton of twitter/facebook spam from an app called 140blood I thought it was some type of hack again. It looks like the app is accessing the service legitimately but is just malicious/spammy. Wouldn’t it be cool to report abuse Read More...
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Would you pay to have your identity in a fashionable namespace?

Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:31 PM by alogan
Chris Messina thinks there is a revenue opportunity in branded namespaces – For a mere $50 minimum donation ( $25 for students ), you can own a limited edition URL and profile from Creative Commons that identifies you to the world and provides a compelling Read More...
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OAuth as a sign in (to Twitter) got me thinking

Posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:57 AM by alogan
Eran Hammer-Lahav just posed about Twitter’s new “Sign in with Twitter” ( documentation ) functionality which is powered by OAuth (not Open ID). It is quite a neat solution, you can both authenticate into a site and grant them permission for them to party Read More...
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Details behind Microsoft’s OpenID Provider – Straight from the PM

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:48 PM by alogan
Jorgen Thelin (complete rockstar) did a session at PDC and went deep on our OpenID Provider . I’ve put the recording in Vimeo (here and below) and you can watch the full session here ( or just this snippet silverlighty glory ) Windows Live ID OpenID Provider Read More...
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Woah! Huge identity post – Microsoft’s new identity landscape

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:09 PM by alogan
Vittorio posted about "Microsoft's new identity landscape" – he says it all . Read More...
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Microsoft Services Connector - some resources

Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:58 PM by alogan
I just saw the recording of the Microsoft Services Connector ( a free tool for connecting Active Directory to services from Microsoft ) was online ( watch it + pptx )   Come and get the CTP and the Admin guide It works by federating your Active Directory Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Live ID OpenID Provider technical preview + see the screencast

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:21 AM by alogan
Over at dev.live.com the team just announced developers are able to test/preview the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider in our test environment. A couple of nights ago I cut a really quick and dirty screencast of the experience – check it out below. Windows Read More...
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Post by Live ID GM re. Phishing responding to davidacoder’s comment on my blog

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:52 AM by alogan
davidacoder left a comment on my blog re. Live ID security, I had a chat with Neel ( runs Live ID ) and he just posted a list of the things we are doing around phishing resistance – there are lots of different things in play from EV Certificates, Read More...
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SXSW Critical look at Open ID session - live random blogging

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:42 AM by alogan
Sidenote: check out the Windows Live ID federation whitepaper which may address a lot of the issues below OpenID attempts to solve the username/pwd problem the web needs SSO OpenID is a decentralized mechanism one organization owning the credentials has Read More...
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Please take my credentials. No really - take them!

Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:18 PM by alogan
I just flew into Houston, TX on the red-eye from Seatac and I'm sitting in a starbucks waiting for my flight to Austin, TX so the writing my not be top of the pops but I wanted to rant a little. --- What bought this on? I saw a super SCARY STORY about Read More...
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Sexy UX for Windows Live ID login screen - the different types and random thoughts.

Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:33 AM by alogan
If I use Windows Live ID on my web site, why can't I have my users enter their credentials on thirdparty.com instead of your login.live.com site? We (Microsoft) are hardcore about security and end user privacy. By allowing users to enter their Windows Read More...
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Ashish Jaiman's Windows Live ID Screen-cast on Channel9

Posted Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:20 PM by alogan
Ashish Jaiman from the US ISV team has done a screen-cast on Windows Live ID. The Windows Live ID service (formerly known as the Passport Network) is an identity and authentication system that you can use with your own Web site or client application. Read More...
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