Re: Linked Data Driven RWW Demo & Experiment

On 12/14/12 10:54 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 14 December 2012 15:39, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com 
> <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
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>     On 12/14/12 8:08 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>>     On 13 December 2012 21:19, Kingsley Idehen
>>     <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
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>>         All,
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>>         Experiment t Steps:
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>>         1. Attempt to lookup the following resource URL:
>>         http://web.ods.openlinksw.com/~kidehen/bing-snapshot-picasso.png
>>         <http://web.ods.openlinksw.com/%7Ekidehen/bing-snapshot-picasso.png>
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>>         2. Send me you preferred identifier (a URI displayed in the
>>         profile UI under "Connected Accounts")
>>         3. **Optionally** open up an account via
>>         <http://web.ods.openlinksw.com>
>>         <http://web.ods.openlinksw.com> -- using whatever
>>         identification and authentication service works best for you
>>         (note: the profile UI has a "connected accounts" tab which
>>         will expose URIs to you re. next step)
>>         4. I'll then add the URI to the ACL protecting the resource
>>         -- again, you don't really need to sign up for a new account
>>         to complete this step, I just need an identifier aligned with
>>         an authentication service
>>         5. I'll reply indicating you have access
>>         6. Done.
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>>         Note, these steps can (and will be) streamlined using
>>         notifications services such that you end up with a variant of
>>         Juergen's example which I posted about at:
>>         https://plus.google.com/u/0/112399767740508618350/posts/MVEcEkY6ZCz
>>         .
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>>         Without Web- and Internet-scale Linked Data this simply would
>>         be achievable, without opening up yet another artificial silo.
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>>     Works for me with twitter and persona
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>     Great!
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>     Anyone else?
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>     All:
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>     Basically, all you really have to do is just let me (the resource
>     owner) know how you want to be identified. Examples would include:
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>     1. Twitter -- http://twitter.com/<userid> e.g.,
>     http://twitter.com/kidehen
>     2. LinkedIn -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/<userid> e.g.,
>     http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
>     3. Facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/<userid> e.g.,
>     https://www.facebook.com/kidehen
>     4. etc..
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>     Basically, each of these social networking/media service providers
>     mints a verifiable URI for its members. In many cases, these days,
>     you can verify these URIs by testing for control over said URIs
>     using protocols such as OpenID, OAuth etc.. Naturally, you can
>     also leverage WebID and its WebID+TLS authentication protocol in
>     the same manner, just by sharing your WebID with the resource
>     owner (me).
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>     Remember, this is a "deceptively simple" example of the power of
>     Linked Data applied to the following problems:
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>     1. verifiable identity
>     2. resource access authorization .
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>     Also note, we are going to be releasing this Javascript control as
>     part of our ODS social web framework project on Github.
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>
> Awesome!  I would definitely like to use something like this in my 
> apps for login.
>
> For anyone that hasnt tried it yet, I'd encourage you to give it a 
> go.  You just need an account with any of:
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> WebID
> Persona
> OpenID
> Facebook
> Twitter
> LinkedIn
> Google
> Windows Live
> Wordpress
> Yahoo
> Tumblr
> Disqus
> Instragram
> Bitly
> Foursquare
> Dropbox
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> Then click: 
> http://web.ods.openlinksw.com/~kidehen/bing-snapshot-picasso.png 
> <http://web.ods.openlinksw.com/%7Ekidehen/bing-snapshot-picasso.png>
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> Do let us know if it works! :)

Also note, we can add any OAuth supporting service that's missing from 
the list above. Naturally, when the framework is released, you will be 
able to extend the list yourself.



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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software
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