Wadja adopts OpenID to provide even more open access to mobile web
Rating: Mobile social networker accepts cross-provider, open source id code
Wadja is a mobile social networking site that concentrates on easy media uploading and free global SMS texting. Using your Wadja account, you can send pictures and updates to everyone on your friends list for free.
OpenID is an idea sprung from the minds of the Open Source community. It is a service that allows users to access all of their Internet profiles using only one password and log-in. As long as the site subscribes to OpenID, your single, secure password will access it. There are currently somewhere in the region of 10,000 sites that are accessible by OpenID.
What does this mean for Wadja?
One of the clever things about OpenID is that you don’t need to create your profile with them. You can create your profile on any single provider of your choice, and that profile will be valid for any other provider on the OpenID network. This means that already existing OpenID users will be able to access Wadja more easily than ever before. Users who are creating a profile on Wadja for the first time will have the option to subscribe to the much larger OpenID community.
From the release:
Alex Christoforou, Managing Director at Wadja commented: “OpenID is aligned with so many of our values at Wadja: freedom of movement online, easy management of online presence and the ability to do this for free. It was a natural decision for us to team up with them, providing further flexibility to our members. A lot of social networks seem to be scared of one another and put up barriers of external communication; Wadja is different. Wadja exists as a bridge between your web spaces – you can send a MySpace message, an email and a text message all through Wadja. The use of OpenID technology takes this philosophy even further.”
What we think?
There’s two things that strike me about this.
First, it’s a damn good idea for Wadja to get on board the OpenID train. Making itself more accessible and easier to get to should be one of primary goals of any social network. Especially if it’s a mobile social network, who already face challenges in that regards,
Second, I initially thought it was odd that OpenID didn’t have a comment on this release. Then I realised that this release is essentially just Wadja letting us know they’ve subscribed to the Social Networkers social network. It’s much bigger news for Wadja than it is for OpenID.
Also, OpenID are so committed to the Open Source ideology that they don’t have any owners… and this principle seems to extend to spokespeople as well!
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