I’ve updated the Twit Connect plugin. Blog owners can now register their blogs with Twitter as an application and run their own oAuth process (Twitter Connect).

Twitters OAuth connections (which are not exactly “new” anymore) have already opened the gates of “Twitter Connect”. My point is this, think with your creative brain not your logical one. your logical brain will insist on having a packaged product called “Twitter Connect” before you will be able to put 2 and 2 together… your creative brain will allow you to see that it already exists! (Just nobody is really using it that way… yet… but they will. A Twitter developer is a bit more resourceful and bit more of a “thinker” than an average platform-developer (or blogger for that matter)… they don’t need a candy apple package to help them realize something is pretty. I’m sure there are plenty of folks already working in it in their projects at this very moment.) (The ability exists right now to give someone a “Connect” button for Twitter, and then start taking actions on their behalf (like commenting on this post or renting a netflix, etc… it’s all available through the marriage of oAuth and Twitter API calls.)

In other words, your post is a day late and a dollar shy.

I pay a sub for this service because i’m a business user and security is very important to me. I don’t want to have to change my password every week, or month. So I love this token because just like the token my company gives me to log in to my corporate VPN, I have to key in a PIN to run the thing, then it will generate a code which I will type in to actually log in.

If I had a clue how to set up a service like this and get people like Yahoo, google, Twitter, The OpenID folks into it I would. I personally would efinitely use a service like this, and I think many business users would too.

1) Many people use specific social networks for different purposes. It may not be a bad thing to have an ability to carry your Twitter identity round with you as well as your Facebook one, one as a business identity and the other as personal

2) Is there enough identity information on Twitter for a portable Twitter identity to be useful? Twitter actually holds very little personal information to help identify who you are, meaning that if you used your Twitter ID to sign into a new site, you’d probably end up adding address details, company and contact details to that site anyway

3) I am unsure that people would following others so freely if they started getting invitations to also “friend” that person on other networking sites, should Twitter add this function. Unlike Facebook, there is mostly no personal connection to a Twitter contact — you follow them because you like what they post on Twitter, not because you like them or want a deeper relationship; how many of those contacts would you want to add on other networking sites?

4) It would be great to have a single standard for identity portability, and logic says this should be OpenID, but while things like JanRain’s RPX exist support multiple “standards” needn’t be a problem for website owners.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

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