OpenID Foundation Retail Summit
by Brian Kissel In Q1 of 2011 PayPal, the OpenID Foundation and Janrain will be facilitating the OpenID Retail Summit hosted by PayPal in Silicon Valley. We are also in discussions with the National Retail Foundation (NRF) about their possible participation. The meeting date is tentatively being scheduled around the NRF Innovate 2011 Conference in San Francisco March […]
Seven sites you didn’t know were using OpenID
The past twenty days have been a real whirlwind in terms of new sites adopting OpenID for sign in. Some of the larger deployments have made the news (Google and Yahoo! Store), but here are seven others you’ve likely not heard about. 7-Eleven Australia Slurpee campaign (http://www.slurpee.com.au/) American Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.org/) Dr. Oz (http://members.doctoroz.com/login) Fylde […]
Authenware Joins OpenID Foundation
Authenware today announced its membership in the OpenID Foundation – an industry organization aimed at protecting identities and intellectual property through the bolstering online security. Through its membership, Authenware becomes part of a community of IT powerhouses that seeks to collectively build awareness of the emerging digital security pandemic. “The exploitation of security vulnerabilities creates […]
theSocialWeb.tv on the launch of the Open Identity Exchange
theSocialWeb.tv visits Citizen Space in San Francisco during the RSA Conference to sit down with Don Thibeau of the OpenID Foundation and Drummond Reed of the Information Card Foundation to discuss the launch of the Open Identity Exchange, the result of a year-long collaboration between the two foundations. John McCrea and Chris Messina dive into […]
NTT docomo is now an OpenID Provider
The largest mobile operator in Japan, NTT docomo, which covers approximately 50% of Japanese population, started offering OpenID authentication on March 9. Every docomo user has an identifier called i-modeID. Using this, users can single sign-on to mobile sites using docomo handsets, making one-click payment and other authenticated actions. These kind of features fueled the […]
Government of Japan started accepting OpenID
Japanese government opened an OpenID Enabled Policy proposal and discussion site.
Open Identity Exchange Launches at RSA
Washington, D.C. and San Francisco — March 3, 2010 — Industry leaders Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton today announced at the RSA Conference 2010 the formation of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) www.openidentityexchange.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to building trust in the exchange of online identity credentials across public and […]
OpenID UX Summit at Sears Report
Last Thursday over 60 OpenID advocates met at Sears World Headquarters in Chicago for a full day of discussions on progress to date and future plans for OpenID deployment and utilization. There is a summary of the event on the OpenID Foundation wiki. See Twitter coverage of the event with the hash tag #openidux Who […]
Ping Identity Joins OpenID Foundation Board
Ping Identity®, the leader in Internet Identity Security, today announced it has joined the OpenID Foundation to help develop, promote and extend digital identity and choice on the Web. Pam Dingle, a senior technical architect in Ping Identity’s Office of the CTO, will represent the company on the OpenID Foundation’s board of directors. “The marketplace […]
Mobile Services in Japan begin OpenID experiment
22 companies including NTT docomo, KDDI, Sony, NEC, etc. have formed “ID Platform Federation Forum”. With JPY12 billion (approx. US$1.3M) in funding from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, the forum members will initiate the experiment, based largely on OpenID, by the end of the year. The forum itself is operated by Nomura Research […]