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Does Yahoo! OpenID 2.0 support open up security concerns?
Blog has supported the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework? OpenID (it says here) is an open framework that allows you to consolidate your Internet identity and thereby eliminate the need to create separate IDs and logins at all of the various web...
[January 17, 2008, 18:24]
OpenID and Facebook Connect: actually, does there need to be a winner?
Blog Website owners have been watching the battle between the open standards based OpenID and proprietary Facebook Connect for over a year now, waiting for a winner. Not only were specific implementations of OpenID defended by Kevin Marks at Google...
[February 20, 2009, 15:08]
Facebook Connect squares up to Google, OpenID and OpenSocial (again)
Blog Third party sites already signed up include Twitter and Plaxo (Plaxo also supports OpenID by the way), but all stand to gain from easy access to the 120 million Facebook users; who, in turn, stand to gain from easy access through their Facebook...
[December 2, 2008, 12:35]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, warns researcher
News A fundamental issue affects the OpenID authentication system, due to its reliance on the Domain Name System, a Sun identity-technology specialist has warned. Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for federated identity at Sun, described OpenID's...
[August 13, 2008, 15:54]
Yahoo to support OpenID
News Yahoo announced late last week that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal online login. OpenID is designed to create a single login process usable on multiple sites. While some sites have adopted OpenID, it remains the domain of...
[January 21, 2008, 9:55]
Sleeping With The Enemy: Facebook surprises all by hosting OpenID summit
Blog These are crazy times in which we live and nothing seems crazier than Facebook welcoming Google, IBM, PayPal and Yahoo to discuss OpenID! It would seem that Facebook really has signed up to the OpenID foundation and, further, will be hosting a...
[February 6, 2009, 13:53]
Obama taps OpenID for government websites
News Yahoo, Google and other top technology companies have signed up to an effort to bring OpenID authentication to US government websites. OpenID is an open identity system that allows people to use a single username and password to log in and...
[September 10, 2009, 12:50]
Google offers limited API support for OpenID
News On Wednesday Google formally announced its support as a provider for the OpenID 2.0 protocol, offering some website owners a way to let users log-in and register for new accounts using existing Google account information.
[October 30, 2008, 8:35]
Google Apps gives OpenID a boost
Blog Google has turned each of the one million plus Google Apps customer domains into an OpenID provider, enabling millions of people to sign in to OpenID-supporting websites with their work, school or organization identity.
[July 29, 2009, 11:22]
Google Apps users to get OpenID authentication
Blog Google is about to announce OpenID log-in functionality for enterprise users of its Apps productivity suite. On Wednesday, Google's Eric Sachs wrote on an OpenID board that two blog posts would appear "in the upcoming weeks", detailing the news.
[July 10, 2009, 17:24]
Facebook Connect squares up to Google, OpenID and OpenSocial (again)
Blog Comment We have considered using openid, but vers 1.0 is terrible and 2.0 is only issued by a few forward thinking companies like yahoo, but we fear the adoption rate out there is really very low. I am currently developing a local search engine http...
[December 9, 2008, 5:54]
Google Apps gives OpenID a boost
Blog Comment One of OpenID's biggest problems is that everyone wants to be a provider, and no-one wants to be a consumer. Not everyone has, or wants a Yahoo, Google, MSN or other account, but might still like to use OpenID to log into sites.
[July 30, 2009, 13:32]
Add OpenID support to your website
Talkback For any readers looking to also add OpenID support to your website to facilitate registration and login, check out the OpenID Foundation website at http://openid.net/add-openid/
[September 30, 2009, 18:46]
Google Apps users to get OpenID authentication
Blog Comment For anyone wanting to accept registration and login from the 1+ million Google-enabled OpenID companies, check out http://rpxnow.com
[July 13, 2009, 7:05]
Facebook Connect squares up to Google, OpenID and OpenSocial (again)
Blog Comment Many thanks for your comment Russ. I would very much suggest you take a look at Facebook Connect. This will not only enable you to make use of a user's existing Facebook identity, avoiding the need for them to re-register as such, but they can also...
[December 9, 2008, 10:50]
Google Apps gives OpenID a boost
Blog Comment OpenID brings us closest to it, albeit still some distance away. I agree to some extent Jonathan. And it's not hard to do using JanRain's OPX solution either. W3C is currently exploring the alternatives for a truly federated identity management...
[July 30, 2009, 13:09]
Does Yahoo! OpenID 2.0 support open up security concerns?
Blog Comment Its definately food for thought. I do wonder how easy it is for sites to join then Open ID scheme and whether your login details are revealed to all perticipating websites!
[January 17, 2008, 22:33]
Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork in the road?
Blog Google announces enhancements to Google Friend Connect while also showing another way of remote login and bringing over contacts at an OpenID meeting hosted by Facebook. Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect still exist (and get enhancements...
[February 13, 2009, 10:50]
Unified login, CRM 2.0 take small steps forward
Blog Important announcements this week to help OpenID catch Facebook Connect; and to help bring Facebook and Salesforce.com closer to delivering CRM 2.0. It was not because anyone wants Facebook to win this battle -- they don't, in fact, because...
[March 16, 2009, 8:36]
Mitigating the fallout
Talkback While there is certainly a non-vanishing risk of some phisher posing as openid.sun.com, we have taken certain steps to make sure that our users are reasonably protected: the weak Debian-generated certificate has been replaced and revoked, and most...
[August 14, 2008, 15:33]
