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A federated identity in information technology is the means of linking a person's electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems. [1] Federated identity is related to single sign-on (SSO), in which a user's single authentication ticket, or token, is trusted across multiple IT systems or even ...
Federated Portal Network; Federated VoIP; Webmention; MX record, *SRV record: Ways of designating what services domains provide and how to access them; Active Directory Federation Services; ActivityPub: Introduced in January 2018, ActivityPub is a standard for the Internet in the Social Web Networking Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C ...
Anime Web Turnpike – was a web directory founded in August 1995 by Jay Fubler Harvey. It served as a large database of links to various anime and manga websites. Biographicon – directory of biographical entries. Google Directory – copy of DMOZ directory, with sites listed in PageRank order within each category. Closed in July 2011.
Instances hosted by different social networking services may communicate with one another as well. A user on the microblogging platform Misskey, for example, may view and interact with posts made by users on Mastodon. Some fediverse networks even allow users to interact with different social networking formats from the same platform.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a U.S. legal defense organization and advocacy group for civil liberties on the Internet, endorses the distributed social network model as one "that can plausibly return control and choice to the hands of the Internet user" and allow persons living under restrictive regimes to "conduct activism on social networking sites while also having a choice of ...
An identity provider (abbreviated IdP or IDP) is a system entity that creates, maintains, and manages identity information for principals and also provides authentication services to relying applications within a federation or distributed network. [1] Identity providers offer user authentication as a service.
It’s now raised a $60 million funding round led by Tiger Global Management. One of the key startups to emerge in the space is Lifebit, which allows wider access to global biomedical data for ...
Ping Identity Corporation is a software company established in 2002 by Andre Durand and Bryan Field-Elliot, in Denver, Colorado. [6] Ping Identity provides federated identity management and self-hosted identity access management (IAM) solutions to web identities and single sign-on solutions, being one of a number of organizations competing to provide standards to replace passwords for ...