Category: News

  • OpenID: 248 Million More through Yahoo!

    Seems like we can finally answer all the "what about Yahoo" questions in the affirmative: Yahoo goes on-line with their OpenID implementation. Mike Arrington calls it a "Massive Win for the Project" and writes: The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the […]

  • Flickr does OpenID!

    It appears that all Flickr user pages are now OpenIDs. They identify https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth as the OpenID endpoint. I don’t have a Flickr account, so I can’t try it out … Chalk up another so many millions of OpenIDs in the market … (Anybody know how many users Flickr has these days? Somebody called Todd claims […]

  • OpenID 2.0 Authentication and Attribute Exchange 1.0 Are Final!

    This was just announced at IIW, after Sxip signed the Non-Assertion Agreement. This completes the non-asserts from all of the Open ID Foundation Board members and contributors to the specs. The newly adopted specifications can be found here. Thanks, everybody, for all your hard work to make this happen!

  • News: France Telecom offers OpenIDs to all of their subscribers

    Today France Telecom has announced at Digital Identity World today that all Orange broadband subscribers now can use FT-hosted OpenIDs. This makes FT the first major telco to support OpenID. I’ve known about this project for a while; I had the first discussions about this with them more than two years ago. It’s great that […]

  • OpenID wins WebWare 100 Award

    Just after bagging the NextWeb award, OpenID is now also a WebWare 100 winner. Of course, we knew that all along. Glad that CNet’s readers agree ;-) Other winners in the same category: Firefox Google Reader Internet Explorer 7 My Yahoo Netvibes OpenID Opera Safari StumbleUpon yourminis