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- OpenID Enabled
- I’m OpenID enabled. Check out the Wikipedia OpenID article for a great overview. The high points include:When you post on a blog using OpenID, the blogger’s site asks your OpenID provider to log you in; when your provider verifies you, you are guaranteed a unique identity without maintaining an account...
- Blog posts 2007-03-03
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- JanRain Raises $1 Million In Funding For OpenID Products
- Online identity management tech firm JanRain has raised $1 million worth in a first round of funding, according to an SEC filing—part of a $3 million round. JanRain's products integrate OpenID, a universal profile that lets people use one screen name to access content and accounts on multiple sites....
- External links 2009-08-13
- Phone-Based Two-Factor Authentication Now Available for OpenID
- JanRain and Positive Networks Combine Efforts to Offer Secure Strong Authentication for OpenID Users PORTLAND, Ore. & OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- JanRain and Positive Networks have developed a phone-based, two-factor authentication solution specifically designed to support users of myOpenID. myOpenID, the most popular independent OpenID provider, is a free,...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- Myspace develops Flock OpenID extension
- Social networking giant Myspace and password management firm Vidoop are launching an OpenID extension for the Flock browser. The extension moves a step closer to full data availability and allows Flock users to see when a site has an OpenID login. Myspace is hoping gain ground on Facebook’s rival...
- Articles 2008-12-02
- Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID
- Yahoo! Support Triples Number of OpenID Accounts to 368 million
- Research articles 2008-01-17
- Technology Leaders Join OpenID Foundation to Promote Open Identity Management on the Web
- The OpenID Foundation today announced that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) have joined as its first corporate board members.
- Research articles 2008-02-07
- Can Sears Open Up OpenID?
- TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters It’s one thing when Internet companies like Facebook adopt OpenID, it’s another when a giant retailer like Sears Holdings Corporation SHLD embraces it. Sears has just announced that it will enable over 1 million monthly MySears and MyKmart visitors to use their Google...
- External links 2009-07-02
- US government launches OpenID pilot programme
- The US government is launching a pilot programme which will allow members of the public to log into participating government agency websites using their login details from other independent websites. The open initiative will use OpenID and Information Card technologies to let people sign onto government sites using accounts...
- Articles 2009-09-08
- 2009 Web Predictions
- It's time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media. Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions, we got some of them right! "The big Internet companies will [embrace] open standards"...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Sears Creates a New Opening into Social Network Marketing
- Sears Holding announcements about the advance of its web-based marketing strategy have followed fast and furious of late and now the company has announced that it will become the first major retailer to launch the Open ID platform â€" one that permits users to establish a single screen name for...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Verisign's Latest: Personal Identity Portal
- Michael Arrington submits: Verisign’s new Personal Identity Portal PIP from now on isn’t the sexiest application out there to help you manage passwords. But it has Verisign’s strong reputation for security behind it, and it is a surprisingly easy way to manage website credentials. PIP is a a...
- External links 2008-08-21
- David Recordon to Join Facebook as Senior Open Programs Manager
- David Recordon, a long time advocate of "open" technologies and a leader of the OpenID and OAuth movements since their beginning, is joining Facebook, he has confirmed to us. He'll start work next week as "Senior Open Programs Manager." Recordon was most recently a director at Six Apart. Recordon will...
- News items 2009-08-24
- Zooomr Offers FREE Pro Account to Bloggers
- Zooomr is offering 12 months of FREE Zooomr Pro account access to Bloggers. This FREE upgrade includes 4GB of photo uploads each month. Plenty for me. Thanks, Zooomr! All you have to do is follow these instructions. I like that Zooomr support OpenID authentication and...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Plaxo Pushes for "Open Social Web"
- Endorses and Implements Key Open Standards, OpenID and Microformats
- Research articles 2007-07-18
- Facebook Connect Set To Expand; Includes Discovery, Digg, Hulu and Others
- Facebook, in an increasing attempt to prove its utility beyond its own site and hence build on its advertising potential in the long run, is expanding its Facebook Connect service on some major media and services sites, including *Discovery*.com, SFChronicle, Digg, Citysearch, CBS.com, Hulu and others. The Connect service...
- External links 2008-12-01
- MySpaceID Gets an Upgrade: Too Little, Too Late?
- Jason Kincaid submits: MySpace has just released a major upgrade for MySpaceID, its product that allows users to sign in to third party sites with their MySpace credentials to import their social graphs and profile information into these third party services. The update addresses many of the...
- External links 2009-03-18
- MySpace partners with Yahoo! in MySpaceID revamp
- MySpace has rolled out a number of upgrades to its data portability platform, MySpaceID in an effort to compete with Facebook's rival Connect service. The revamp comes with a high-profile partnership with Yahoo!, which will now support MySpaceID logins through the Yahoo! homepage. ...
- Articles 2009-03-18
- Warner Bros. TV sites get a Socialthing.(SHOW TIME)
- AOL has made a deal with Warner Bros. Television Group aiming to expand the reach of its Socialthing newsfeed service. AOL's Socialthing aggregates and tracks Internet activity of users' friends, allowing users to find common interests and share news, video and...
- Research articles 2009-05-08
- The Blurry Picture of Open APIs, Standards, Data Ownership
- Look beyond "real-time" and "social", and you'll easily find another pair of tech buzzwords that everybody wants attached to their product or service - "open" and "standards". Companies are practically falling over one another to show they have embraced developers or users, letting data stream in and out of their...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Identi.ca gets fresh aid in quest to out-message Twitter
- How many ways can you send 140-character messages to the people you care about? Tiny Twitter rival Identi.ca is trying to find out, and it has raised a small angel round to help it in that at least interesting pursuit. While Twitter has been gaining millions of users through its...
- News items 2009-08-07
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