Upon2020 (archive)
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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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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…
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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…
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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.…