Disclaimer: This blog post does not reflect future product announcements, technical strategy or advice from my employer. Disregard this disclaimer at your own risk. In my previous post Some Thoughts on Open Social Networks, I gave my perspective on various definitions of "open social…

A while back I tried signing up for an OpenID, an "open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." The basic idea is that, instead of needing to choose a user name and password for every site you visit, you can identify yourself with an ID that many sites will…