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Independent: A fresh start for comments on independent.co.uk

Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 17:12

Indy online editor Martin King: "Websites have been encouraging cowardice. They allow users to hide behind virtual anonymity to make hasty, ill-researched and often intemperate comments … So we have changed our logins to encourage comments from individuals or even official bodies using their Facebook or Twitter accounts – with other options for Yahoo or Open ID log-ins. There is also a Disqus option, where your account must be validated through your e-mail."

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 Friday, 21 March 2008, 12:35 0

"[A] next big thing—web-mail then, social networking now—can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from their favourite web portal. The non sequitur is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own rig

 Thursday, 17 January 2008, 22:30 0

"Yahoo on Thursday seized the initiative from Microsoft and Google by backing [OpenID,] a new web standard that allows users to consolidate their web identities and use a common log-in across websites."