Re: Google Turns on WebFinger

It's a big step forward, imho.  Some more commentary on this:

http://webofdata.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/google-lod-cloud-contributor/

On 11 February 2010 23:32, Alexander Korth <alex@ttbc.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> you may have noticed that Google turned on WebFinger for its accounts with
> public profiles [1,2]. Although I am a fan of URLs rather than Emails, this
> is another step towards an open, distributed and social web through the
> adoption of an open standard by an important identity provider. I am happy
> to see that recruited open web evangelists like Fitzpatrick, Messina and
> Smarr still are able to fight for the right things.
>
> [1]
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_enables_webfinger_for_google_profiles_email_as_identity.php
> [2]
> https://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/thread/fb56537a0ed36964
>
> Greets,
> Alex
>
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