{"id":1096,"date":"2008-12-11T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T07:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1096-bbc-looking-at-openid-for-iplayer-social-network.html"},"modified":"2008-12-11T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T07:39:48","slug":"bbc-looking-at-openid-for-iplayer-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1096-bbc-looking-at-openid-for-iplayer-social-network.html","title":{"rendered":"BBC looking at OpenID for iPlayer social network"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Adobe\u2019s MAX conference in Milan last week I spoke to the BBC\u2019s Anthony Rose, who runs iPlayer<\/a> at the BBC, and wrote this up for today\u2019s Guardian<\/a>. One of the things we discussed is social networking planned for iPlayer, where you will be able to see comments, ratings and recommendations from your friends. I asked Rose how user identities will be managed:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ll make sure you never have to log in to use our services. But if you want to post comments and create a profile then you\u2019ll need to log in. We\u2019re going to start by using a BBC one, then we\u2019re going to look at OpenID<\/a> and see if we can synch to others. OpenID is very cool but is a challenging user experience, and some people will get it, and some will go, why have you made it more difficult?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right now there are multiple competing \u201cnetworks of friends\u201d: Facebook, MySpace<\/a>, Microsoft Live Messenger<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> and so on. Facebook is trying to extend its reach with Facebook Connect<\/a>; Google is evangelising OpenSocial<\/a> which \u201cdefines a common API for social applications across multiple websites\u201d, along with an implementation called Friend Connect<\/a>. It will be interesting to see to what extent the BBC creates yet another social network, and to what extent it hooks into existing ones.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: openid<\/a>, bbc<\/a>, iplayer<\/a>, facebook<\/a>, myspace<\/a>, twitter<\/a>, microsoft live messenger<\/a>, opensocial<\/a>, google<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Adobe\u2019s MAX conference in Milan last week I spoke to the BBC\u2019s Anthony Rose, who runs iPlayer at the BBC, and wrote this up for today\u2019s Guardian. One of the things we discussed is social networking planned for iPlayer, where you will be able to see comments, ratings and recommendations from your friends. I … Continue reading BBC looking at OpenID for iPlayer social network<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36,44,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-google","category-internet","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}