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It better not be like that when I get there. I am trying to run away from this damn cold - Shevonne

Word. - Admiral Anika

Eagerly awaiting the scarf pics - Daniel J. Pritchett

Bah. It's 28F this morning in ABQ. - Michael R. Bernstein

It's 23 over here and it is REALLY SNOWING! supposed to get 10" today - Susan Beebe

Hey Susan, that's what she said. (always hilarious) - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Wowww. Don't know what it is in PA, here, but I don't even want to go outside now. - Shawn Farner

I just put on a hoodie, and I know it's colder elsewhere, but I grew up in SAN DIEGO. This cold in LA is just obnoxious. Maybe Al Gore was wrong? - Derrick

Nope. More energy trapped in the system (ie. higher average temperatures) leads to more extreme weather as well, so you'll get some (local and or temporary) cold spots too. - Michael R. Bernstein

It's been in the 70s here! I'm enjoying it! You think we can we keep this temperature and still get snow? :) - Carmen

Good morning to you too! :) - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Mark: Lindsey? - Derrick

yeah, frosty grass and roofs all around my 'hood in the IE this morning. brrrrr - Neil Bernhart

Check this out: my A/C has this secret function - if you move the switch to the left instead of the right, it goes to this weird "h.e.a.t." mode. Not sure what that stands for, but I hope other SoCal A/Cs have it too. If not, we may have to resort to putting on those silly "jackettes" that we only wear when we go skiing on that frozen water stuff (the term eludes me right now). - Joseph Cizek

Sheryl, forget the cocoa. Send cashmere. (Or some hot nerdy guy with nice hands) - Derrick

I find if I sit on the pan blogging too long, my legs go to sleep, and then I fall over when I get up. - Ian May

not good ian... its the thinking room.. not the sleeping room! ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Command Central. - Martha

You are correct Louis. Great post Mike. - Franklin Pettit

and it works on Blogger too http://friendfeed.com/e... - Charlie Anzman

Thanks for the great post. Got kind of confused as to who's who, but saw that you're "substitute Louis" this week. I missed the Friend Connect buzz, went to Google's write-up for it, and felt a bit uninspired. Your post added the buzz they lacked, IMO. - Joseph Cizek

Substitute Louis? :-) - Louis Gray

LOL ?!! - Susan Beebe

seems like the site should change to "everyonebutlouisgray.com" - Allen Stern

It stops being single sign-on when there's a dozen SSO services that are wholly incompatible. - Mark Trapp

I disagree, Mark. As long as a new visitor to your site doesn't have to create a new account, you're doing fine. Support the top 2 or 3 players in the auth market (say FB, Google, and Yahoo) and >95% of surfers can use your site with minimal hassle. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I won't say that having a dozen one-way auth providers isn't irritating, but from a pure "how do I get more people to participate in my underutilized community" angle you want to make it dead simple for folks to join. - Daniel J. Pritchett

This is why Wikipedia still allows anonymous edits - no up-front hassle between you and the contribution you wanted to make. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Every developer would have to choose what they want to support and implement completely different auth systems, never-mind the inability to use the social portions that Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect provide because half your readers signed into the wrong service. Single sign-on is great: it's been the holy grail since people have had more than one password, which is to say literally *decades*. Google and Facebook didn't solve that problem. - Mark Trapp

Sure the painful integration is incumbent on the developers but it's great that we finally have an *option* to let people in without making them register for Yet Another Account. Next step is making it easy on developers, not just users. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Single sign-on in a corporate environment is somewhat different to single signons in a public environment. I don't like the thought of places where I might spend money becoming open to a single details capture. - alphaxion

I'm not sure what you mean, Alphaxion. It sounds like this conversation is merging with Mona's OpenID thread (http://friendfeed.com/e...) from last night. Someone said that you put all of your eggs in one basket (like say PayPal) and make that basket secure and log all acccesss to it rather than each of us trusting a decentralized network of unverified ecommerce venues. - Daniel J. Pritchett

alphaxion: that's easily avoided by implementing a federated system like OpenID. One standard, as many providers as you want. You bring an account, and you can log in to where-ever you want and they'll be able to identify you. Corporate environments can implement their own SSO provider using the same standard. Like really, these were all things thought of and solved, at least in part,... more... - Mark Trapp

single signon within a corporation is very limited in scope when you examine it - this isn't to say it diminishes the damage that can be done should it be compromised but the majority of the time these accounts and systems aren't externally facing and tend to have far more security layers and processes. In the online world, it becomes a whole different battleground and as a network admin I just don't have enough trust in a single signon to rule them all, I prefer to keep them disperate for damage limitation - alphaxion

alphaxion: SSO should identify a person online, and only give that person, and nobody else, access to what they need to have access to. If it's someone else, or malware, or whatever else you want to call it, it should not grant access. Identity theft isn't a new problem, or a unique problem with SSO, and there are more basic issues to tackle long before you get to that question. SSO can be as secure as biometrics. - Mark Trapp

What differentiates Google FriendConnect and Disqus/IntenseDebate for blogs? - Glenn Batuyong

Google has orders of magnitude more users for you to tap, DISQUS/ID have more robust commenting featuresets - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

I still don't see what is really so exciting about Either service. Ok, so now I can go to TechCrunch and comment using my facebook login instead of just putting in my username/password.....So? I guess I need to see what ends up being done with theses services before I really see why people are buzzing. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

@Rahsheen - You're taking advantage of the social connections people create outside of your site. The fact that Google and FB have more daily users than nearly every other site on the internet means that all of us have another free way to increase the reach of our communities and content. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I'll care when its narrowed down to less services that don't matter. Having so many players in the game just makes the user confused and the person in charge of the website has to use an all or none strategy to set things up. Like many folks, I don't have time for all that. - Amber, Random Time Lord

Amber: Zoho allows Google, Yahoo, or Zoho logins. This requires little to no thought on the part of the user and significantly expands the number of people who might be willing to try their service for a few seconds. No one's saying you have to support all of these services, just that portable logins are a great concept that's only going to get more useful as time passes. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Well, I guess I see some of the collaboration ideas, if you can bring your friends around etc..... but so far I have been quite dissapointed with the whole OpenID thing, and even annoyed... so hope this will work better - Peter Efland