Category: Comments
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Should the UK’s Identity Scheme Adopt OpenID Instead?
William Heath writes: Suppliers abandon the NIS and smart money heads to OpenID [The NIS being the National Identity Scheme in the UK.] If that came to pass, what’s next for OpenID? World revolution?
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Thanks, Yahoo!
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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The Mad Rush To Becoming The Leading OpenID Provider (Example: the Telegraph)
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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OpenID in Lebanon via China
A friend of mine sent me this news clipping from the Beirut-published Daily Star: Yahoo user to access 10,000 websites by single sign-on By Xinhua News Agency If you have a Yahoo user name and password, you can access almost 10,000 websites that suport the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework by a single sign-on, media…
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Hey, “Johannes Ernst delivered.”
Glad you think so, Matt. [On the question of a useful scenario for OpenID in the enterprise] I think Pam misunderstands something about user-centric and the enterprise, however: Of course, the technologies built to support user-centric identity (like OpenID and CardSpace) can be used in many different ways, many of which aren’t user-centric at all.…