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Did you ever get sick of making up a user name and password to each and every one of those websites where you have to have user names and passwords? A lot of folks try to simplify by using the same id and pass on every site, but that’s dangerous, because if just one site is compromised or untrustworthy, the bad guy can guess your login at all the others. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a SINGLE secure identity that was recognized all over the internet without requiring each site to know your password? Now you can –it’s an Open Source initiative called OpenID. Right now the bottleneck is the relatively small number of websites that support OpenID login. I first heard about OpenID at the last SAO talk in January by Scott Kveton of MyStrands. Continue Reading…

FeedBlitz Chiclet: What is FeedBlitz? And what is a chiclet (or chicklet, as it is sometimes spelled?) FeedBlitz is an outfit that creates and manages a subscription list for your blog FREE. And the term “chiclet” has come to mean any web third party dynamic thing that does interesting Web 2.0 stuff on the back end. Usually a chicklet is visually enhanced by placing it in or on a 3-d background resembling an old-fashioned chiclets brand of gum. Chiclets has been acquired by Cadbury Adams, in case you’re interested. How it works: You tell Feedblitz the feed address for your blog. They provide a mechanism whereby people can request a notification via email –anonymously if they want!– whenever the blog is updated. Feed Blitz also supports other notification methods as well, as it turns out. Continue Reading…