January Rain and other made up words
JanRain, a great company developping a bunch of OpenID related tools, made it possible today to embed Pibb discussions in any html website. I just did a quick page to show off a bit, probably the first non JanRain site using the new widget: Waglo discussion via Pibb.
Kevin just explained a little better how to embed pibb discussions on your pages. There’s also a Pibb wordpress plugin, I might try it out when I get a minute, or not, since I’ll be happier when I can put wordpress behind me.
JanRain is also responsible for My OpenID, an OpenID provider if you still don’t have one. What’s it for, you ask? Remember Microsoft’s passport? OpenID is sortof the same, only better since it’s not controlled by any one big corporation. OpenID is backed by Microsoft, Six Apart (it was developped at livejournal), Verisign, AOL, etc. It’s decentralized, meaning anyone can setup an OpenID provider. It lets you use the same identity over many websites, such as magnolia to share your bookmarks, Jyte to test your claims, etc.
Speaking of Jyte, that’s another neat website by JanRain. I’ve been hanging there for a couple of months already. It’s a forum in disguise, each thread is started with a claim where users vote to agree or disagree and comments, inspired claims and credibility together are used to delve into serious and not so serious topics.
Finally, I wanted to mention Bot Bouncer, a third party service (by JanRain also) to test OpenID users against a captcha. It’s a service aimed at website administrators, but also to serve as a proof of concept to create other tools like it, built on top of OpenID to enhance its usefulness.
Yay for pibb! This embedded chat totally has uses in my current project! Pitty about the IE troubles with it though, I’m sure they’ll get that sorted soonish!
Comment by Blueberry — 2007/08/15 @ 22:39