a Google team built a user-friendly OpenID relying party and released it with detailed UX lessons and best practices: http://bit.ly/bqrd78

another useful social web building block! RT @dewitt: A flurry of posts tonights about the new XAuth framework: http://goo.gl/fb/9pdoq

one of the highlights of the recent Federated Social Web Summit for me was tantek's ideas on safe short URLs: http://ttk.me/w/Whistle

and don't miss meebo's great XAuth demo at http://meebo.com/xauth (I built the integration on google's side)--easy to build into any site!

my talk from Google I/O "Bridging the Islands: Building fluid social experiences across websites" is now up on YouTube! http://bit.ly/a5EXny

man, i thought i was a javascript expert, but this totally broke my brain: http://bit.ly/gNpEV0 (discussion on HN: http://bit.ly/hhkTD8)

a great technical walk-thru of XAuth by @chrismessina on the Google Code blog (using my demo as the example): http://bit.ly/a2aDzq

excited to announce that I'm taking on a new role -- at Google! http://bit.ly/6kpWEe

what he said! RT @sethjs: My take on the XAuth "rest of industry" v Facebook angle: http://bit.ly/dm5OP6

yay, AOL's new OpenID 2.0 + sreg/ax/pape/etc provider is now live! Congrats to @gffletch and team! http://bit.ly/cdsuGt

btw, if you want the in-depth inside story of Google+, make sure to read @stevenjayl's excellent new piece in wired: http://t.co/xGSM3Ud

new video of @dickhardt's inspiring talk from our last OpenID Foundation board mtg: http://dickhardt.org/2010/12/oidf-2010/

as an "unrepentant JSON fan", this makes me happy. RT @carnage4life: It's official. JSON has killed XML on the Web. http://bit.ly/iaF9nd

neat, useful data aggregation FTW! RT WebWorkerDaily: Tungle Now Has Facebook Events, TripIt and Plancast Integration http://dlvr.it/3s7Mp

firefox team is on fire these days--weave just graduated to "Firefox Sync", so all your browsers can have the same data! http://is.gd/cyubJ

zittrain nicely captures why we should be worried about closed systems, no matter how elegant, esp. these days: http://is.gd/7Mlk7

my interview with HowSoftwareIsBuilt.com is actually a great overview of our work to open up the social web: http://is.gd/3lshP

awesome to see MSFT ship OAuth 2.0 and better auth UI--this "open web" stuff is really getting widespread and usable! http://t.co/CehDrhI

yup, it's the future! :) RT @markhawker: Watching "Fluid Social Experiences Across Sites" http://bit.ly/fvmpXt by @jpanzer @jsmarr. Awesome.

RT @chrismessina Check out @michaelrhanson's "Contacts in the Browser" @mozlabs prototype, which uses PortableContacts! http://bit.ly/a0lzWw