Mikael Linden has done a great job doing a comparison of saml2int 0.2 and eGov 2.0. A full report may be published later. Here is the highlighted major differences:
Yet another company added to the list of commercial support options.
Catalyst IT are an Open Source services company based in New Zealand, and we have been engaged by the Ministry of Education here to help design and implement an IAM scheme for compulsory sector education (K12). Everything we have done has been based on SimpleSAMLphp, and we continue to push it as a solution to any other customers that we come in contact with looking for similar capabilities.
Foodle will most likely be equipped with a easy to use API for third party sites before the end of this year. It will probably be REST-ish using JSON. The API methods will probably be split into two categories; those calls that may be done unauthenticated, and those that needs authentication. For authentication of users we will use OAuth.
There may also be an implementation of OpenSocial interface ontop of the Foodle API. Details not available at this time.
If you have a service that would like to integrate with Foodle, I would like to get in contact with you 
Send me an e-mail, or comment on this blog post. Examples may be:
I think the Identity space will see a new paradigm, where the separation distinction between SPs and IdPs will be less clear. User data and attributes will be shared across services, not only from the IdP to the SP. OAuth plays an important role here. Foodle may be a playground giving you experience with service-to-service integration, that you may benefit from in other projects. If you need more reasons to play with the Foodle API (when beeing available), contact me.
Foodle API will probably indirectly cause these effects:
I’ve added yet another company that offers commercial support on SimpleSAMLphp: SSOeasy.
9star research now announces commercial support for SimpleSAML Services. We are thrilled to learn that the company 9star research, well-known in the community, now are including SimpleSAMLphp in its list of official services.
Our team of dependable SimpleSAMLphp experts and experienced professionals can easily take the pain and suffering out of any SimpleSAML based federated access management project. We have years of experience working with the SimpleSAML middleware, executing large and small projects in commercial, academic, healthcare and government markets worldwide.
PRiSE has got an expert team on digital identity who has worked in middleware and digital identity international projects.
PRiSE announces commercial support on SimpleSAMLphp.
A good introduction to the OAuth 2.0 spec and the changes from OAuth 1.0 over at hueniverse:
I’ve ran rnd.feide.no on Drupal for 2-3 years now. While drupal is a very sophisticated platform with tons of features; for this particular site, it was basically an overkill. I’ve just converted the site back to WordPress which I used before I migrated to Drupal. The reasoning is to save some time maintaining this site, and focus mostly on content. The plugin API is somewhat simpler in WordPress, which allows me to extend the site without disturbing other work I’m focusing on.
If you miss some content, or find 404s, let me know.
I’ll probably fresh up the theme a bit sometime soon, and improve some of the contents (such as the attributelist).
Commenting on the blog entries should now work again (have been disabled for a while on the drupal site for various reasons). I’ll probably add OpenID login pretty soon.
The SimpleSAMLphp User’s mailinglist is a pretty high volume list. We have now created a new mailinglist SimpleSAMLphp Announce, that will be moderated, which is dedicated for important announcements only.
Information posted to this list will be such as:
Members may not post to this list. We provide an RSS feed as well, for those that do prefer that over e-mail.
