mmm…bacon…

“I had an interesting e-mail exchange yesterday with Chris Messina and a handful of folks from the DiSo project about “DiSo for Drupal”… read on for more details

Kelly Guimont gives post-mortem of the Lunch 2.0 hosted at Vidoop

As a newbie to the Startup community, the 54 hours that is “Startup Weekend,” was one amazing, hectic, fun filled event. I

“Bacon and OpenID were the themes at yesterday afternoon’s Lunch 2.0, graciously hosted by OpenID provider Vidoop.”

Jeremy Tanner regales us with tales of how he saved Portland Startup Weekend, and save it he did. Good times were had by all, free beer and pizza always help.. oh and power strips

Mike Vizard, a listening Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor talk Google I/O with Chris Messina. Recorded Thursday, May 29, 2008.

“This is a question for all those website owners in India, who have been around for a while, and those who have started new ventures recently.” Good post about OpenID from an international (India) perspective, noting some of the hurdles to adoption of OpenID in India

Indeed… taking a line from a Dylan Thomas poem David Recordon talks about how OpenID providers in the face of criticism are not giving up, instead working to innovate and improve the current user experience on the web, specifically the authentication component.

“OpenID has come a long way since it’s inception a year and a half ago. It’s usage has gone mainstream, & open source libraries are available to help companies enable their own sites for OpenID. With BooRah’s growing user-base and multiple partners we’re integrating with, there is no better time to support this open standard on our site. So, you can now login to BooRah with your OpenID and start experiencing seamless integration with some of our partners (others to come).”

“Lunch 2.0 is one of the best way to meet people in Portland’s thriving tech scene—the other being BarCamp Portland and Startupalooza.”

Except at Lunch 2.0 held by Vidoop…

Most comprehensive wrap up of this last iteration of Lunch 2.0 (Vidoop style)… check it out for every write up related to the event

BooRah also announced its support for OpenID, the free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet. Through the use of OpenID framework, BooRah plans to offer consumers a more seamless and hassle-free transaction capability for online reservations, take-out and discount certificate purchases on its website.

…the story of today’s Web: too many sites, too many usernames, and not enough cranial capacity to file them all accurately. But there’s good news at hand: OpenID, a free, open-source framework for “single sign-on” across different Web sites and applications. The even better news? There already exist a bunch of PHP widgets that allow developers to easily integrate OpenID into a PHP application, and this article is going to show you how to use them….

Good post talking about the phishing vulnerabilities of OpenID and what is being done to address them.

A good post chronicling Paul’s path toward OpenID acceptance and adoption. w00t!