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2008: Momentum

2008 was an awesome year for OpenID where the community created significant momentum moving toward mainstream adoption. No, not every site on the web is using OpenID nor does every consumer know what OpenID does, but last year alone the number of sites that accept OpenID for sign in more than tripled. Today, there are over thirty-thousand publicly accessible sites supporting OpenID for sign in and well over half a billion OpenID enabled accounts.

Barack Obama’s Change.gov Adds OpenID Commenting

As first reported by ReadWriteWeb, President-elect Obama’s website Change.gov now supports OpenID sign in for commenting on certain blog posts and sections of their site.  Change.gov uses Intense Debate to power their comment who recently relaunched with OpenID support.  As ReadWriteWeb wrote: Every other major player that has announced support for OpenID has in fact […]

User Experience, Attribute Exchange and MapQuest

Last month at the first Content Provider Advisory Committee meeting in New York, several media companies and affinity groups identified two desired areas for improvement around OpenID: the user experience as it reaches mainstream adoption and the increased ability to exchange profile information given user consent. Since then, the OpenID Foundation, its members and the […]

The First OpenID User Experience Summit

Yesterday at Yahoo!’s campus in California, nearly forty people from the OpenID community came together for a day to discuss the usability and user experience of OpenID and OAuth. Presentations were shared by Facebook about their experience developing Connect, MySpace explained how they’re combining OpenID and OAuth, Yahoo! around how they’re evolving their own OpenID Provider in response to their research, Magnolia shared how they’ve been using OpenID to help reduce spam, Google with their study on federated login user interfaces, and Plaxo wrapping up the day with how they’re looking at OpenID as a piece of a larger “open stack” for the Web.

OpenID Content Provider Advisory Committee Kickoff Meeting

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.

SourceForge Allows OpenID Logins

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 […]

The First OpenIDDevCamp was a Success

Over the past two and a half days, nearly fifty different people came to the first ever OpenIDDevCamp hosted in San Francisco.  Nearly twenty people showed up Friday evening to start drawing up the agenda for Saturday from a list of possible projects.  Saturday we had our first full day of discussions and hacking around […]