Centralized Comment Registration: TypeKey
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Yes, the FAQ was a bit more helpful and answered a few of my questions. Seems like a good idea for some people/siutes, but I am still waiting for more information.
Apparently, the talk around the :MT: community this weekend was all about TypeKey. It’s an as-yet-unreleased service by SixApart, the folks who do MT and TypePad. From their site, here’s a short description:
The basics about TypeKey:
TypeKey is a free, open system providing a central identity that anyone can use to log in and post comments on blogs and other web sites.
It seems that quite a few people immediately started attacking the idea, before SixApart even had a chance to flesh out some of the details. Here are a couple of good summaries on some of the community commentary. This is basically a blogging equivalent to systems like Microsoft’s “Passport” feature where you share a login/account across multiple sites. It’s never been my favorite idea, but I can certainly see where it might be useful for blog commenting.
From the info on the TypePad site, it looks like it will be a freely available “standard” (if you can call something created just by one company a standard) that other people will be able to implement into their own products; similar in that vein to Trackbacks. This’ll be interesting to watch as it develops.
Update: Jay Allen, the creator of the popular MT “Blacklist” feature, made a short statement saying, basically, “chill out and wait for more info, ‘cause it ain’t like you might think”.
Posted Monday March 22, 2004 in Weblogs by Chris Curtis
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Yes, the FAQ was a bit more helpful and answered a few of my questions. Seems like a good idea for some people/siutes, but I am still waiting for more information.
By reedmaniac on March 23, 2004 at 01:55pm link
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There a FAQ available on the TypeKey site. It doesn’t answer all the questions various people have asked, but it covers quite a few of them.
By Chris Curtis on March 23, 2004 at 01:50pm link