A web action is the interface and user experience of taking a specific discrete action, across the web, from one site to another site or application. They’re not a specific technology but use a variety of technologies.

For users, BrowserID provides a safer and easier way to sign in.

For developers, BrowserID offers a world class sign-in experience with only a couple lines of code.

For identity providers, BrowserID lets you give your users an identity they can use everywhere.

The Indie Web movement is primarily about ownership and control over your identity. The difficulty is that many of the tools that we need to achieve the complete vision of data ownership just don’t exist yet, or they exist, but not in a way that is accessible to most people. During IndieWebCamp, we focused on discussing these current issues and starting to build some of the tools necessary to make the Indie Web a reality for regular people.

Google Takeout lets you take your data out of multiple Google products in one fell swoop. Moreover, you’ll find that all your data is in portable and open formats‚ so it’s easy to import to other services quickly.

Web FWD supports Open Web innovators by providing a space at Mozilla where they can build their products. We are creating a workshop environment where bold ideas can be realized and bare-bones prototypes can develop and go forward as products.

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MyProfile intends to provide a solution for managing the numerous accounts and profiles that users have on the Internet. Its main purpose is to provide a unified user account, or simply ‘user profile’, which as opposed to current ‘silo’ profiles, would really be under the user’s control, on a device controlled by the user.

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The simple fact is, Glow is my personal attempt at building a social network that doesn’t sacrifice simplicity, features or user-experience in an effort to promote decentralization, user privacy and data ownership.

WebHome is a “movement,” aimed at the creation of a global, decentralized, open social network that is not tied to any specific company, software or website. And it turns out that we already have plenty of network technologies and tools that can help us connect social profiles, wherever they are located.