SSO Needed for Portals
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To provide a full service, Web 2.0 sites need to be able connect to external sources - such as the PageFlakes portal which exposed a Gmail web part that I showed the other day. Other external sources might include:
- Map data from Google
- Wishlist information from Amazon
- Photo's from Flickr
To be able to connect to these services requires authentication information to be passed around and so it is likely that Identity will become a major topic of discussion sooner rather than later so that we can achieve a form of single sign on across the web. The buzzwords in this space at the moment are: Web 2.0, Identity 2.0, LAMP, SAML, Passport, and Infocard.
If you'd like to learn more about the issues surrounding Identity 2.0 I'd behoove you to download the following presentation and watch it:
http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/
The format of the presentation has been talked about quite a bit throughout the blogsphere and so it's probably worth watching it just for that :-)
Security Quote of the Day
Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it. And if anything goes wrong, use your powers.
Elastigirl
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Nice point
posted by
Kevin
on
8/24/2009 9:51:44 PM
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Well, you are right. Sooner or later but we will have to work with external sources. I haven't done it yet. I'm just at the beginning making head and tail out of stocks of information I've found about it in the books from the torrents files search engine <a href=
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http://www.picktorrent.com </a> . But I'm already making progress, so I hope in a couple of monthes I'll need the information you give here. I believe it's very important.