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OpenID Content Provider Advisory Committee Kickoff Meeting

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:45:13 +0000

AARP, AOL, BBC, Google, Hearst Magazines, JanRain, Meredith, MySpace, National 4-H, National Public Radio (NPR), The New York Times, Reed Business Information, Six Apart, Time Inc., Vidoop, and Yahoo meet in NY City for first OpenID Content Provider Advisory Committee meeting hosted by the BBC.[WWW] http://openid.net/2008/10/01/openid-content-provider-advisory-committee-kickoff-meeting/

The Wall Street Journal Looks at OpenID

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:00:06 +0000

Today’s Wall Street Journal takes a look at OpenID and how it is being used since it’s creation in 2005; asking the question if it could become the solution to so many user names and passwords around the web.  While OpenID by itself helps with this problem, it will ultimately be OpenID as a piece [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/09/29/the-wall-street-journal-looks-at-openid/

OpenID Libraries for Common Lisp

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:55:43 +0000

This is a guest post by Maciej Pasternacki, a Google Summer of Code student who created CL-OpenID. The summer is gone (September doesn’t count as summer), and so is the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. My Summer of Code project was CL-OpenID, an implementation of OpenID for Common Lisp, and its a pleasure to me [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/09/02/openid-libraries-for-common-lisp/

mixi Supports OpenID with the Simple Registration Extension

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:33:09 +0000

Last week mixi, the largest social network in Japan, become an OpenID Provider for all of their fifteen-million plus users; one in five Japanese web users are on mixi. While they are another large OpenID Provider — which some argue is a bad thing — they are the first large OpenID Provider to also [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/08/25/mixi-supports-openid-with-the-simple-registration-extension/

Challenges facing OpenID

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:00:37 +0000

Its been an busy week in the world of OpenID. On Friday Ben Laurie announced a security vulnerability around OpenID that relates to existing problems with DNS and certain SSL certificates. Discussions on the OpenID General mailing list have been fruitful and the major OpenID providers out there today have disclosed that they [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/08/10/challenges-facing-openid/

MySpace announces support for OpenID

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:24:24 +0000

On Tuesday of this week, popular social networking site MySpace announced support for OpenID and integration with their Data Availability initiative. MySpace is launching as an OpenID provider to begin with bringing the grand total of OpenID enabled users on the Internet to well over 500 million users. What’s interesting to note about this announcement as well [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/07/25/myspace-announces-support-for-openid/

A new chapter in the OIDF

Wed, 28 May 2008 19:48:01 +0000

The OpenID Foundation has covered a lot of ground in the last 1.5 years since its inception. We consolidated a number of internet identity efforts, built an organization charged with promoting and protecting the efforts of this fantastic community, developed an Intellectual Property Process that will ensure OpenID stays open, brought a number of [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/05/28/a-new-chapter-in-the-oidf/

Demand OpenID campaign launched

Fri, 16 May 2008 21:25:01 +0000

The folks over at JanRain have launched demand.openid.net. This is a great little tool that will help users tell the sites they like how much they really want OpenID. It comes complete with a handy-dandy bookmarklet you install in your browser to quickly tell the world about the sites you want OpenID enabled. [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/05/16/demand-openid-campaign-launched/

SourceForge + OpenID: Making it happen

Wed, 07 May 2008 23:12:56 +0000

Last week SourceForge quietly added support for OpenID to their site. The news is official now. SourceForge implemented relying party support (as opposed to just being a provider) which is a trend not often seen by larger players. I wanted to talk with one of their developers to see what it took to make [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/05/07/sourceforge-openid-making-it-happen/

SourceForge Allows OpenID Logins

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:15:56 +0000

If you use open source software then you’ve probably heard about SourceForge before.  If you develop open source software then you’ve probably even used some of their infrastructure in the past.  Today they’ve made it even easier to login to SourceForge with OpenID.  SourgeForge.net isn’t acting as an OpenID Provider but rather is accepting OpenID [...][WWW] http://openid.net/2008/05/01/sourceforge-allows-openid-logins/