Just about everybody seem to be complaining that there aren’t enough sites where one use those hundreds of millions of OpenIDs. (Known as "relying parties" in the jargon.) And there is no denying, it’s a lot easier these days to get an OpenID than to use it. There are conflicting views on how many OpenID [...]
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Ariel Gordon, in charge of everything identity at France Telecom / Orange, tells me that Orange.fr, their portal, is now OpenID-enabled. This must be one of the largest OpenID Relying Parties so far. Congratulations, Ariel!
Since the beginning of the year, Marc Canter has been churning out a stream of amazing visionary pieces. Today’s installment finally went to far ;-) and I have to blog it. If you want to understand how the internet will become personal over the next decade, you could do a lot worse than reading his [...]
OpenID Celebration and Naysayers’ Week
If you read some blog posts this past week — in which MySpace adopted OpenID, "bringing the total number of enabled accounts to half a billion" (Techcrunch), Orange’s portal in France became one of the largest acceptors of OpenIDs ever, and Facebook fully validated the OpenID proposition — one could get the impression that all [...]
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