Flickr: Find your friends
Now this is how to do the "find your friends" trick. For GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail, Flickr never once asks for your password. Bravo!
Link tags: authentication
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Spokeo? More like Spooky-o; bad practice taken to the extreme. at Aral Balkan
Aral points to what is possibly the most egregious password anti-pattern implementation yet: a new startup called Spokeo http://www.spokeo.com/public/join
Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics
A cautionary tale that explains just why the password anti-pattern needs to die. Coding horror indeed: in this case, 1,777 GMail accounts were compromised.
Yahoo!, Flickr, OpenID and Identity Projection
Looks like Flickr has some interesting plans around OpenID. Our reporter Simon Willison is on the scene.