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Openid

2009

Feds to Let Citizens Log In With Yahoo, Google, Paypal Accounts (via OpenID)
·127 words·1 min
Articles Government Openid Privacy Security
This is an enormous win for OpenID, but it is also a huge risk if anything goes wrong with such a high-profile project. Obviously, it will all depend on the implementation, and if all goes well it will give OpenID the push it needs to increase the number of consumers as opposed to providers, which is a ratio that is sorely lopsided at the moment.

2007

Facebook, Identity, and OpenID
·1148 words·6 mins
Articles Facebook Identity Openid Social Networking Tech Web2
I’m a little late on this one, but it’s still worth discussing. I also apologize for the length of this post, but I had more to say than I thought!