A couple of people have asked me what consitutes a well designed login page. I’m really not an expert in this area, all I can tell you is what we have learnt from the UK federation WAYF redesign, the work Rod Widdowson has done for the Shibboleth Embedded Discovery Service and general good advice on … Read more
We’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently talking about the non-library usecase for the UK federation. After all, dealing with publishers all the time gets a bit wearisome for all of us 🙂 An established model in the US for sometime has been using the concept of federated login not to facilitate login, … Read more
Shortly before Christmas, the Shibboleth team released their first beta of the new Shibboleth Embedded Discovery service. Unless you are on the shibdev list you might not have heard about this lovely new development so I thought I might do a bit of ‘pimping’! The embedded DS aims to significantly improve the current problems that … Read more
I recently attended the REFEDS and Internet2 Member meetings in Atlanta with both of my new hats on – as coordinator for REFEDS and consortium manager for the Shibboleth Consortium. I was there in part to talk about sausages 😉 Well, actually to present the eduID business case at REFEDS. We have had two main … Read more
Yup, it’s another post about branding, and another post about eduID. Sorry 🙂 I’ve been having a lot of discussions recently with people about the ‘brand’ of eduID and that it causes some concern – mostly because of the word ‘brand’. I couldn’t agree more. I was thinking about it at the weekend and the … Read more