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RasterWeb: Lanyrd. Pete Prodoehl calls me out on Lanyrd’s integration with the Twitter auth API at the expense of OpenID. I’ve posted a comment with my justification—essentially, tying to Twitter’s ecosystem means I can actually implement the features I’ve been talking about building on top of OpenID for years, with far less engineering effort.

# 31st August 2010, 8:49 pm / identity, oauth, openid, twitter, recovered, pete-prodoehl

Sign in with Twitter. Intriguing: Twitter are now an OpenID-style identity provider... using OAuth.

# 20th April 2009, 4:10 am / oauth, openid, twitter

twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter (via) Brilliant proof of concept by Ian McKellar: an OpenID provider that authenticates you by sending you a Twitter direct message.

# 14th January 2008, 10:28 pm / ian-mckellar, openid, twitter

identity-matcher. Dopplr’s social network importing code (for Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and sites supporting Microformats), implemented as a Rails ActiveRecord plugin.

# 4th October 2007, 2:53 pm / dopplr, facebook, fowa, fowa2007, gmail, identitymatcher, matt-biddulph, microformats, openid, plugins, portablesocialnetwork, rails, ruby, socialgraph, twitter

Importing your social network from other sites. Dopplr now does this from GMail, Twitter, vCard or hCard and XFN. I’m convinced that contact import is a killer app for OpenID.

# 26th June 2007, 1:46 am / contactimport, dopplr, gmail, hcard, microformats, openid, twitter, vcard, xfn

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