realistdreamer

I’m looking at this integration too. Friend Connect and Google’s OpenSocial should also be considered. Gigya appears to use a proprietary authentication, but OpenSocial is “open.”

Not sure I need integration, but I want to get to the point that users can initially “join” through Open ID, but somewhere they are prompted to complete additional fields (I know, upcoming feature). Would also like to have different additional fields be presented depending on “user type” requested (e.g. subscriber, contributer, business, consumer).

Open Social has good docs over at Google Code and custom fields plugins DRegister and Register Plus appear to be abandoned.

I have to say, I really want to use this to limit searching around and copyright issues. But as of now, they haven’t gotten their implementation stable, I see some with the flash implementation without the distracting “bar of photos” across the image and others that have PHP errors or something. Check this guy’s demo blog and there are errors everywhere. https://picapppublishers.blogspot.com/2009/08/daytime-emmy-awards.html
Also, I’ve searched sites to create my own “showcase” and I see worlds of problems with flash not loading, etc. Frankly, I see fewer problems now than a few weeks ago, but there is much work to be done.

The flash implementation without the “bar of photos” is better if it can be skinned and implemented in javascript. As of now, it screams “cheesy” which is not what my readers want. For now Zemanta and Apture will have to do.

Wow, is this a likely problem with many webhosts? Are there any you know where this won’t be a problem and otherwise have a good service.