Rapleaf should support OpenIDs’
Our next project will support OpenID which, as I mentioned before, rocks!
There are a couple of flaws with it though. First, it’s only an identity service so there is no way to know if the person is trustworthy. All you know is that they own the ID. Second, it’s missing an email address, so if you want to contact that person you can’t (i think).
Well there is one service out there that offers an open reputation platform for email called rapleaf. We use them on junkdepot and it works wonderfly!
I think it would be amazing if rapleaf offered support for open id’s that way you could tie a reputation to the identity and even an email (via the rapleaf api).
All they would need to do is extend their api to support lookups by openid and allow users to claim an openid on their rapleaf profile.
I sent them an email asking if they plan to do it. I’ll let you know what they say… here’s hoping!
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June 20th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
LID (which falls under the Yadis umbrella) is able to do authenticated messaging. With some of the providers, communication is possible–however it does need expansion and this sounds like a great way to do so!
June 21st, 2007 at 1:20 am
hey jake — we definitely should do this. (and don’t forget MicroID — i think that has a lot of promise too.) you’re totally right. we’ve been wanting to do this for the last six months but it has never made it to our top 5 priority list. i know, absolutely no excuse… and i know we will not do this in the next 2 months. but i hope we can make this a priority after that. (and if you have some clever ideas on how we should implement OpenID on Rapleaf, send me an email and we’ll can discuss). thanks for being a great rapleaf supporter — it is especially meaningful coming from you because junkdepot is very cool.