http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/30/wordpresscom-in-brazil/

A Brazilian judge ordered that one blog hosted at WordPress.com should be blocked in Brazil. A local ISP association mentioned it would do so via IP address blocking, something that would compromise access to WordPress.com in Brazil and would not block the blog.

WordPress filed a motion on Monday, explaining, in essence: a) how wordpress service works; b) wordpress terms of use and US laws apply to content hosted on WordPress.com; c) wordpress oppose censorship and will not take down the blog  unless it violates wordpress terms of service; d) the best ways to handle the blocking of this blog in Brazil without compromising the access to WordPress.com.

From http://janrain.com/blog/

“At the end of April there were 13196 RP’s.”

More and counting..

OAuth seems to be another interesting stuff. But that after openid.

http://spreadopenid.org/ is a site that came up earlier this year.

It uses a wp with openid plugin. Visit the site for more. Though it doesn’t seem to be maintained as of current date.

A few of other things that I ve read upon lately..

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_vs_bigco.php

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_big_companies.php

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_openid_five_key_takeaways.php

A very comprehensive list here..

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_status_check_a_guide_to_openid.php

Really interesting..

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myopenid_for_your_domain.php

http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9866802-36.html?tag=newsmap

I should have had rather been using my del.icio.us than putting up this post I guess.

http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/

LOST! My wallet. With all the usual contents. A couple of hundred bucks, my ID card, both the ATM cards couple of receipts and the wallet itself

Am gonna be stuck in a very precarious situation now. Have the cash in my account but can’t use the ATMs. been a real long time since I withdrew cash from the bank itself. Sigh!! I had an idea that I had lost my wallet before I went in for the last exam. But at that time I wud have reather worried about the exam itself. So once I came back, I looked around for it and as I assumed it was no where to be found. Thankfully I had taken a photocopy of my ID card to be sent in for the SoC tax forms. So I can use them as intended. Though I ll apply for a duplicate ID card tomorrow itself. But still its gonna be a pain.

Anyways. Now that the exams are over, I can finally manage to concentrate on the attribute exchange specs. Will be reading up the IdP part of drupal. More on this soon.

The re-wiring will make it easier for users to see what they do on Yahoo

Yahoo users will soon have one place where they can manage all the services they use on the popular website.

The company has begun a mammoth re-engineering project that will unify the disparate services Yahoo runs.

It hopes the project will transform the site into a vast social network where Yahoo users can quickly find and communicate with each other.

Read more..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7366674.stm