I have a fun weekend planned. NewsML Feed Format Specification and HTTP Gateway Specification reviews. Awesome.

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I’m one of those people that’s hated Flash since day one—my main complaint being that the content couldn’t be properly indexed and so outside of showcasing art and/or a developer’s talent, Flash had no place driving the content of a web site.

With help from Adobe, Google is launching “a deep algorithmic” change that will allow them to spider and index the Flash content. Adobe has provided similar assistance to Yahoo! but they haven’t made announcements yet.

I wonder how the team in Redmond feels about this and its impact on Silverlight.

Read Vanessa Fox’s post for more info:
http://searchengineland.com/080701-000002.php

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Looks like the big players are finally jumping onto the OpenID bandwagon.

The OpenID Foundation recently announced that a number of internet heavyweights joined the group. The board now includes representatives from Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo!

While OpenID isn’t without it’s critics, including some concerns about phishing, it’s looking more and more like a viable solution for the masses who want to eliminate the need for multiple user names and passwords.

From the OpenID web site:

OpenID is free technology that simplifies the on-line user experience by eliminating the need for multiple user names across Internet sites, enabling individuals to take more control and ownership of their digital identities. This user-centric digital identity technology helps users reduce the pain of managing dozens, even hundreds of user-names and passwords, and provides more control over what personal information they share with Web sites when they sign-in using an OpenID.

Today, more than 10,000 Web sites support OpenID log-ins, and an estimated 350 million OpenID enabled URLs currently exist.

And more importantly for me…it looks like the folks over in the CodeIgnitor forums are working on OpenID libraries - so maybe it won’t be long before my favourite CMS will offer a relatively painless way to implement it soon too.

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