Tag Archives: openid

HEIs Get Facebook Fever (again)

Posted on June 14, 2009 by paulwalk

Facebook rolled out its ‘usernames‘ function today. This is a new feature at Facebook which allows a user to claim their little bit of the Facebook namespace, along the lines of: http://www.facebook.com/[preferred_name]/ The process started at 05:00 am UK local … Continue reading →

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OpenID and name authority

Posted on January 22, 2009 by paulwalk

In his Science in the Open blog Cameron Neylon has written an interesting post, A Specialist OpenID Service to Provide Unique Researcher IDs? in which he asks: Good citation practice lies at the core of good science. The value of … Continue reading →

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