Johannes Ernst on January 31st, 2008

Yesterday was an important day for OpenID and business on the net. Before yesterday, OpenID was an intriguing, but largely irrelevant technical curiosity for web business. Since yesterday, it’s viable for business. And in a short while, it will be a key weapon in the fight for customer attention and market share. Starting yesterday, it’s [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 31st, 2008

I’m in the market for a new mobile phone. I thought this one might be a good choice. ;-)

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Johannes Ernst on January 30th, 2008

The nice folks at Yahoo! indeed know how to be nice in a collaborative community, (i.e. the OpenID community). Their big Yahoo! OpenID Provider service now available as a public beta announcement today acknowledges a lot of people … to quote: We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the OpenID community for educating us [...]

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Updated 2008-01-24 1:44pm If you are interested in OpenID, OAuth, OpenAuth and related technologies, you may want to consider attending the WebGuild’s Web 2.0 Conference and Expo at the Santa Clara Marriott on January 29, 2008. I have the honor of moderating a high-powered panel on this subject at 1:45pm. The panelists will be: George [...]

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It’s clear that companies like Yahoo! and AOL are natural OpenID providers. Telcos like Orange should also want to be OpenID providers (of course, they all are already). But according to today’s news, the Telegraph (newspaper and website in the UK) is now also becoming an OpenID provider. As somebody expressed in the comments said, [...]

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