http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/30/the-single-sign-on-war-will-ruin-openid/

Background
People have different identifiers, of different security, that they give out depending on how much they trust you. Examples might include:

• Homepage URL (very public)
• Email address (little bit more secret)
• Mobile phone number (perhaps pretty secretive)

As has been shown with OpenID, XFN, etc... URLs are people too. You can do a lot of ( Read more... )

Yahoo does OpenID ( Read more... )

Looks like Yahoo's up to something with OpenID:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_to_authenticate_openid.php

... I can't wait to see what! :-)

Awww, I love how Eric's all about using me as the example in this blog post, announcing OpenID commenting being officially launched on Blogger:

http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/12/openid-commenting.html

Check it:
http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-feature-openid-commenting.html

Hell yeah.

(Oh, and in case you thought I was implying this was my work... let me dispel that right away. I had like almost zero to do with this. But ( Read more... )

I wrote a huge post that grew too long for a blog post, and put it here:

http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/

Comments welcome!

Okay, I finally logged into Jyte...

http://jyte.com/profile/bradfitz.com

Give me cred.

This is good for OpenID...

Sun just pre-announced their OpenID IP Non-Assertion Covenant, saying very clearly and strongly that they won't assert any patent claims against anybody implementing OpenID, as long as said person/company doesn't assert any patents against any other OpenID implementation (not just against Sun). And also said they don't ( Read more... )

Yes, friends, AOL is now supporting OpenID.

I figured I'd better say something so everybody stops spamming me about it. :-)

Microsoft, AOL, Verisign, Symantec, .... anybody else I'm forgetting? Good times.