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Plaxo in the NewsGoogle 'Hybrid Onboarding' Simplifies Remote LoginWant to simplify the process of creating online accounts? Google on Tuesday announced that it has finalized a two-step log-in process that lets you use your Google information to set up accounts on other Web sites. from PC Magazine | November 3, 2009   Share Google Helps with the Password JuggleSearch giant joins Facebook and Plaxo in rolling out new technology aimed at decreasing password rage among users. from Internet News | November 3, 2009 Share Yahoo! instant log-ins take new OAuthYahoo! has combined OpenID instant log-ins with OAuth data swapping. In other words, after logging in to a third party web site with your Yahoo! account, you can now swap profile data, contacts, and other info between the two. from The Register | September 20, 2009 Share Portable Contacts lets you get friends’ info on other sitesMySpace, Plaxo and now Google all support a new open standard for sharing social data across web services. Called Portable Contacts, it lets third parties securely access data like your address book in Gmail or your friends list for use on other sites. from Venture Beat | March 26, 2009 Share Photos From Facebook HQ: Free Love, Free Jerky & Freedom for User DataAfter a period of dramatic tension, social networking giant Facebook has joined forces with the OpenID community working for a distributed system of standards-based, non-proprietary user identity. It's a move we think bodes well for the web and yesterday the first big collaborative event was held since the union was announced. Facebook hosted an OpenID User Experience Summit at its headquarters in downtown Palo Alto. from ReadWriteWeb | February 11, 2009 Share Plaxo Shows Us How Painless OpenID Can BeRemember all that talk about how normal, everyday users find OpenID too confusing and difficult to use? And how the login system’s nagging usability issues will prevent it from being adopted by the mainstream web audience? from Wired | February 10, 2009 Share Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New OpenID MethodThe most-watched geek event of the day has to be the OpenID UX (User Experience) Summit, hosted at the Facebook headquarters. The most discussed moment of the day will surely be the presentation by Comcast's Plaxo team. from ReadWriteWeb | February 10, 2009 Share Google and Plaxo Combine OpenID and OAuth for Improved UseabilityAs a concept, OpenID has shown a great deal of potential. But that potential has often been hamstrung by the series of hurdles through which OpenID users have been required to jump in order to use their credentials. from ReadWriteWeb | January 29, 2009 Share OpenID and OAuth: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great TogetherToday, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard. from TechCrunch | January 29, 2009 Share Flex Your Networking Skills10 tips to building, maintaining, and using your professional network in a job search. from The Boston Globe | January 12, 2009 Share OpenID Foundation Board Election Results AnnouncedHere at ReadWriteWeb, we're big proponents of the Open Stack. As such, we've been encouraging you to participate in the OpenID Foundation Board elections, throughout December. Hopefully, you got the chance to participate, because the elections have come to a close. The OpenID Foundation has announced its new Board. from ReadWriteWeb | December 30, 2008 Share Cant We All Just Get Along?MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Digg--people are tired of entering the same information over and over again, every time they join a new social-networking site. Earlier this year, many social-site operators announced efforts to solve the problem by creating tools that make users‘ information portable. But as these products have started to roll out in the past few weeks, trying to keep up with them all has saddled websites with extra engineering. from MIT Tech Review | December 18, 2008 Share The Paperless Office ReallyOf all the promises of information technology, none has proved more elusive than the paperless office. Although electronic communication has replaced much of the paper in my life, a lot of the most important informationfinancial and legal documents, expense report receipts, business cardsstubbornly remains on paper. from Business Week | October 29, 2008 Share Fruits of the Comcast-Plaxo Marriage: Fan PagesIf it wasn‘t immediately obvious why Comcast forked over a reported $150 million for Plaxo, a social networking site, it may become clearer later this month, when Plaxo officially launches Fan Pages for FanCast, Comcast‘s online video site. from Wired | October 6, 2008 Share One Key Fits AllRegular Internet users know how difficult it can be to manage all of the different user names and passwords required by the many Web sites they frequently visit. Wouldn‘t it be better if there were a simple and secure way to log on to all Web content? from The Wall Street Journal | September 29, 2008 Share Who Owns Your Friends?Technology blogger Robert Scoble wanted help moving contact information for his 5,000 Facebook friends into his Microsoft Outlook address book. He turned to Joseph Smarr, chief platform architect at Plaxo, a company in Mountain View, CA, that synchronizes contact information between Outlook, other desktop e-mail programs, and a number of Web services. Smarr gave Scoble a short program to test out, which automati cally paged through Scoble‘s Facebook connections and extracted the names, birthdays, and e-mail addresses of his friends. from MIT Tech Review | July/August 2008 Share Its Complaxtic: Comcast Buys Plaxo to Bolster Video SharingPlaxo is best known for its fancy address-book software that automatically updates everyone on your contact list whenever you make a change. So why is the cable giant Comcast buying the Silicon Valley start-up? from The New York Times | May 14, 2008 Share Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisitionComcast is adding a social dimension to its services through the acquisition of Plaxo, a deal the two companies announced Wednesday afternoon. from CNet | May 14, 2008 Share Comcast buys social network pioneer PlaxoComcast Corp (CMCSA.O) has agreed to acquire pioneering Web start-up Plaxo Inc, which was first to turn address books into social networks and laid the foundation for Friendster and Facebook. from Reuters | May 14, 2008 Share Podcast: A Conversation with Plaxos John McCreaJohn McCrea, the Veep at Plaxo in charge of marketing stopped by to do a live interview yesterday. The occasion that brought him by Mashable Conversations was the announcement of the results of the concepts of open and DataPortability when applied to a social network. The graphs he supplied us with prior to the interview and announcement were simply amazing. from Mashable | March 20, 2008 Share |
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