Comments on: I Hate Updating Profiles

By: Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:43:07 +0000

The OpenID 2.0 spec (in a pretty clean beta) supports attribute exchange. In the current spec, there is a pretty widely supported extension called sreg that supports basic info requested on many sites. This post is from last fall, but it alludes to the potential of attribute exchange for the exact issue you describe in this post. Cheers, Bill

By: nani

nani — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:36:42 +0000

If About pages can support HTML, can you just stick an RSS link in there, in lieu of the whole schpiel?

By: Bud Hunt

Bud Hunt — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:54:11 +0000

Thanks, y’all, for the quick responses.

D’Arcy — I’m an OpenID technidiot, so there’s lots I don’t know about the tool — but it can’t update my profile at Flickr, or Blogger, or all those other web spaces, can it?

Tom — Same question about FOAF. Can I use it as a de-facto profile? As a way to update those spaces I mentioned, or the ton of others that I won’t remember to update until I go back to those pages?

By: Tom Hoffman

Tom Hoffman — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:32 +0000

FOAF.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:57:41 +0000

OpenID supports all kinds of “about me” fields. What’s your first name? last name? preferred username? phone number? etc… it’s not used much, but it’s there…