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Google Clarifies Its OpenID ImplementationOctober 30

Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb shared by 30 people

After we wrote about Google becoming an OpenID provider yesterday, a number of reports suggested that Google was not following the OpenID guidelines closely and that it was basically forking OpenID to suit its own agenda. The problem with Google's implementation of the OpenID protocol was that users could not just use their Gmail accounts to log into any OpenID enabled site and that Google itself did not accept OpenID to let users log into Google's own services. Now, Google has published a blog post its its Google Code Blog that explains why Google chose this implementation and how it will address these concerns in the future.

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How to Use the New Google Web Search RSS FeedsOctober 30

Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb shared by 54 people

Google's been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and frustrating, you have to go through Google Alerts to get an obscure RSS URL, but we offer a tutorial and some strategic advice in this post.

Web search RSS is useful for being alerted whenever search results for your keywords or link have changed; subscribing to least a few searches will let you know when Google users are seeing something new in the first few pages of search results for your company name, for example.

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How to Get the Feeds

All the other major search engines make it really easy to grab a feed for any web search, but Google is probably concerned about spammers finding bizarre and unscrupulous uses for their feeds. We're all inconvenienced as a result.

To get a feed

Ubuntu 8.10 now available for downloadOctober 30

Nilay Patel via Engadget shared by 21 people

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Right on schedule, it looks like Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is now available. Linux fans should look forward to performance gains and a new Connection Manager with 3G support, as well as the ability to install from USB drives and built-in BBC content availability. Torrents should be popping now -- and if you haven't hit up the 'bu yet, what're you waiting for?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Ubuntu 8.10 now available for download originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:01:00 EST. Please see our

Saints Row 2October 29

Yahtzee Croshaw via Zero Punctuation shared by 8 people

Zero Punctuation reviews this weeks sandbox crime game, Saints Row 2.

Google is Now an OpenID ProviderOctober 29

Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb shared by 65 people

This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it would give every Windows Live user an OpenID account, and today, Google announced a very similar plan. Google will allow web services to join a limited test of an API based on the OpenID 2.0 protocol that will give Google Account users the option to sign in to websites with their Google credentials and without having to sign up for a new account at those sites.

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