OpenID (almost) going Mainstream!

January 18, 2008

First, Yahoo (and Flickr) will be OpenID 2.0 providers starting 30th this month. Google announced that Blogger is now working a provider but only if you allow it. I really don’t know why they are asking people to check that damn checkboxes, maybe because of their enourmous database. There is not a list of trusts you can manage, for now you just can add one. At least they are already consuming openID. I wished I would not need a yahoo account to have my own space at Flickr. But that’s not for this moment yet.

Microsoft is getting late here. Wouldn’t they like to have the url id.live.com/alcidesfonseca spread all over the internet?

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This post has 3 comments. Feel free to read them and leave your own.

lmjabreu
"Microsoft is getting late here."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_ID

Alcides Fonseca
I mean OpenID. I know they have been working with OpenID folks, but until now there's no OpenID for my live accounts. They are getting behing here comparing to Yahoo and Google.

lmjabreu
Well, I posted that link because of the introduction:

"allows users to log in to many websites using one account. It was originally positioned as a single sign-on service for all web commerce."

Sounds a lot like OpenID, being Microsoft, I do not believe they actually see any benefit in supporting OpenID when they already have their own version of it.

The last thing I heard about that was that Cardspace would accept OpenID Identifiers, but nothing more than that, you know more?

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