Links for October 27th
- BenCurtis.com » Rails, OpenID, and Acts as Authenticated
Steps that Ben took to integrate OpenID with Acts as Authenticated for account creation and access
Tags: ruby rails code openid tutorial acts_as_authenticated - How to use OpenID (a screencast)
OpenID lets you log in to different sites without having to create a new username and password for each one. This screencast demonstrates OpenID in action.
Tags: videos openid identity tutorial - Marc’s Voice » The Chess game of social networking
No one [social networking] vendor has to WIN the game. We can all hang out in the park and play, .. dance, juggle, sing or just read the paper. We can all participate in a Community Commons of people, technology and commerce – and live happily ever after.
Tags: socialnetworking games openness competition collaboration - Lock-in becomes a Web 2.0 issue (Scripting News)
“Facebook could easily be .. where the dam breaks. It’s attracting so many users, who may at some point realize that they want control of the data that’s locked up inside Facebook.. vendors who have been on the right side of this issue will be the heroes”
Tags: social_networks openness facebook control identity - Game mechanics applied to social media: Keeping score
Tricks that social networking sites can get to keep customers
Tags: games social_computing socialnetworking strategy design - Games learning from Web 2.0
specifically about using tag-based approaches to think about behaviour engines
Tags: games social_computing strategy design
