OpenID is an exciting, up-and-coming technology which will make website registration and login simpler (Finally! Fewer passwords to remember!) I’m hopeful that, over the next year, you’ll see a flood of web apps add support for it. But today there are only a few dozen web apps that have that support. Support in web [...]

OpenID is an exciting, up-and-coming technology which will make website registration and login simpler (Finally! Fewer passwords to remember!) I’m hopeful that, over the next year, you’ll see a flood of web apps add support for it. But today there are only a few dozen web apps that have that support. Support in web [...]

Mephisto is still developing, but seems to be coming into its own as a blog engine of choice for Rails. Since Mephisto does not yet have OpenID support in its trunk, this seemed like a good project as the running example for my peepcode screencast on OpenID. There is some very active ongoing work, though, that if [...]

Article suggests a "decentralized social networking framework" that would allow different networks to interoperate, but seems unconfident that it would work. The comments are particularly interesting, suggesting OpenID and microformats as parts to the solution.

Tags: openid, social software, social networking

Eventually, nearly all web apps will likely support OpenID in some form. But — here in the early days — what web applications are most in need of OpenID? Apps where identity is important — you want to track several pieces of data back to a known identity, or allow an identity to come back [...]

On the heels of the Windows CardSpace general availability launch in Windows Vista, Microsoft demonstrated momentum with industry partners that are working to apply this technology to help consumers realize a more confident online experience. This includes the announcement of collaboration on use of Windows CardSpace with the OpenID 2.0 specification.

A couple of days ago Microsoft announced they were opening up some API's around LiveId and now support for OpenId.

Link: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Microsoft Working on OpenID Support

Tags: apis, cardspace, openid

Working at Microsoft, it was frustrating to see “not invented here” and “we have to own it” attitudes often dominate when it came to interoperability and standards. Not only did this cause immediate harm to the consumer, but it was also self-defeating — it has unavoidably done great damage to Microsoft’s long-term position in the [...]

An anonymous reader writes "In his RSA conference keynote today, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will support the decentralized OpenID digital identity protocol, in addition to WS-* and CardSpace (transcribed notes, video). From its roots in LID, i-names, and Sxip, the first major deployment in LiveJournal, and now with support from Techorati, Magnolia, Symantec, a suspected mass-deployment by AOL, and a number of startups — using URLs as digital identities has caught hold."