Comments on: openid & comment tracking?

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:10:35 +0000

cool, check in and let me know how it goes!

By: Greg J. Smith

Greg J. Smith — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:55:35 +0000

Hey, I was just inspecting coComment to see if it was down w/ Open ID. The fact that it is (well, will be).. makes me think that the application is definitely worth integrating into my pending site redesign.

Great question Hugh! This is exactly what has been on my mind for the last few weeks. I really want to pull the conversations I’m having across the net onto my blog as (related) content.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:17:09 +0000

@mat: no idea who should build it. i would guess some kind of api would do the trick, but i don’t even know how openid works.

By: Mat

Mat — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:52:07 +0000

who are the right people to implement this? should this have been written into the spec?

it’s a great idea, because you’re right, tracking comments across blogs is brutal.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:53:37 +0000

@steph: openid/oauth … i just mean whatever centralized login service.

@jaoquin: no problems at all with cocomment, i’ve not used it … just that it’s an extra service/plugin etc…which means that i have to do extra for it to work. while openid could solve this by giving me 2 for price of 1, login & comment tracking.

right now i am so burned out with web aps that as soon as i see a sign-up landing page, i zone out. i can’t be bothered. … it’s a problem we’re all having in the dev world, on both sides of web aps.

By: joaquin

joaquin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:42:22 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the posting. At coComment we will soon be releasing Open ID. Regarding reliability for coComment if you can send me your issues. We are constantly working to improve service, speed, etc, so knowing what is not working for you is very helpful.
You can reach me at joaquin@cocomment.com

Thanks

Joaquin

By: Stephane Daury

Stephane Daury — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:19 +0000

Oos, link to OAuth spec got sanitized from my prev comment. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth

By: Stephane Daury

Stephane Daury — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:27:57 +0000

Technically, that’d be a better job for OAuth than OpenID.

OpenID is for authentication (AuthN), OAuth is for authorization (AuthZ).

Both can (and probably should) be combined into such a service.

By: William Spaetzel

William Spaetzel — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:05:16 +0000

That is a great idea. I’ve tried using cocomment on and off and I don’t find the site to be reliable.

If someone developed an addon to OpenID consumers that accepted pings, then it would be easy to update blog software to send those pings out.