{"id":383,"date":"2008-01-18T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/openid-in-lebanon-via-china"},"modified":"2008-01-18T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T22:33:55","slug":"openid-in-lebanon-via-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/openid-in-lebanon-via-china\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenID in Lebanon via China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine sent me this news clipping from the Beirut-published Daily Star:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"float:right; margin: 0 20px 0 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/images\/dslogo_n.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<h1>Yahoo user to access 10,000 websites by single sign-on<\/h1>\n<p>By Xinhua News Agency<\/p>\n<p>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 reported Friday. The service starting Jan. 30 will reduce the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter online. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice that Lebanese paper got their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&#038;categ_id=27&#038;article_id=88141\">article<\/a> from the Chinese news agency (with the factual error that there are nowhere close to 10,000 OpenID 2.0 sites, but never mind that) And that is how <a href=\"http:\/\/kveton.com\/blog\/\">Scott Kveton<\/a>, fellow board member and chairman of the OpenID Foundation, got quoted on a Lebanese website. (You didn&#8217;t think that would ever happen, Scott, did you!)<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t made it that far; years ago I was once interviewed by that same newspaper but I don&#8217;t think they ever printed the interview.<\/p>\n<p>But as my friend said who forwarded the article: <i>&quot;As you say, this is becoming unstoppable!&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}