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IBM and Google and Yahoo and Microsoft and VeriSign and Openid

Good news, more to follow (I hope)
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2008 02 07 Rob Yates Comments (0)

Email Addresses as Openids

Eran Hammer-Lahav: Users should be able to use their email address as their OpenID, as most sites today use emails as usernames anyway. This will solve the first part of making the identifier simple. So instead of choosing ‘AOL as the identity provider and entering the screen name, or worse, typing ‘http://openid.aol.com/username’, the user will [...]

2008 01 05 Rob Yates Comments (0)

Facebook – an Openid challenge

Facebook exists because a simple usable federated identity system doesn’t. Wired’s challenge to tear down the social networking silos seems easier to solve if we had such an identity system and I would think that the openid community would take up the reins and lead the charge.
I was therefore somewhat aghast when I saw the [...]

2007 08 23 Rob Yates security Comments (4)