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BrowserID Articles
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BrowserID at the London Ajax meetup
Yesterday at the London Ajax Meetup I spoke about “Rethinking User Registration with BrowserID”. In the (roughly) half hour talk I covered the need for new login systems on the web, what is broken now, how BrowserID is a solution for these issues and showed how easy it is to create a BrowserID login (both from a developer and from a user point of view).
The video of the talk can be seen on the Skillsmatter website (HD on and fullscreen is your friend as the embedded version is a bit small).
The slides are online and embedded here:
(navigate slides with cursor left and right, go through bullet points with up and down and toggle notes with “n”)The audio is available on archive.org:
If you want to know more about BrowserID, here are some resources:
- BrowserID.org – for all information about it
- The BrowserID field guide (work in progress)
- The PHP code example on HitHub
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Screencast: BrowserID login flow on OpenPhoto.me
BrowserID is an initiative to provide the web with a better way to sign in. The web is a connected collection of resources and you should not have to have a user name and password for each of them when you could use the web instead.
Today we show you a screencast of how easy BrowserID makes it to login to a web site. For this, we’ll look at how the login flow for an existing BrowserID user works the first time they log in on a new website. Our example website is OpenPhoto, a hot new photo sharing app that keeps users in control of their data.
Screencast of logging into OpenPhoto with BrowserID
Get involved:
BrowserID needs your help to grow and become a weapon of choice in the fight against insecure and annoying login systems. The great thing is that now is the time where you can be part of this.
