http://blog.openiddirectory.com Fresh news & latest buzz from the wide world of OpenID Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:55:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There have been many postings from zynics and evangelists about Facebook joining the OpenID foundation board. The joining of forces leaves a couple of people irritated, because they either do not trust in facebooks honesty or they just do not see any sense in this move. Well, I guess it's not ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=34 Orange Telecom a couple of months ago was the first Telco worldwide that provided their customers with an OpenID. Last Thursday I had the privilege to be part of the 'User Centric Mastermind' panel of the 2nd European Identity Conference, which led to some interesting new insights on how Orange ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=33 At the time of this writing there are an estimated 93 million OpenID owners out there, a lot of them not knowing where to use their OpenID, how to use it, or even not knowing that they own an OpenID at all. That said, the most ambitious goal for 2008 should ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=32 Congratulations to David, Scott, the guys at Vidoop and everyone else who was involved in this relaunch! I love the design and the clear structure of the content. This is a big step forward for the OpenID community. Cheers! Thomas Check it out at openid.net http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=29 France Telecom has announced yesterday that it will start supporting OpenID for its 40 million users at their subsidiary company named Orange. This is a huge success for the OpenID community. To be honest - I've been waiting for a big telco to make this move for a long time now, ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=28 Techcrunch had an amazing post yesterday, which should make everybody think about the future of social web apps on the internet. If I draw the right conclusions we will see a future of profiles and social graphs that will be enabled to float freely between different sites. Sounds familiar? Sound ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=27 We are proud to announce today that we are heading for the launch of the private beta of YoWhassup.com during the next days. YW is the first application that brings everything together what belongs together in Web 2.0: OpenID and Microformats, granular Identity 2.0 Profiles with sophisticated Control, Trust, an Open ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=26 There has been a lot of discussion on the OpenID marketing mailinglist recently about how to explain OpenID to the not so geeky user. This is also the topic of Carstens post on his blog called "Not so relevant". In his well done summary Carsten gives an excellent introduction and steps ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=25 Information Week yesterday released an interesting article on OpenID. Andrew Conry-Murray tries to give an overview of OpenID from its beginnings 'til now and shares his thoughts on the question "OpenID: Can It Become Single Sign-On For The Web?". I think it's important to have this positiv critical view from the ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=24 We finally reached a new landmark in the adoption of OpenID: with Koobarra, an Australian social network, we counted 300 submissions to The OpenID Directory since January 2007. There might be much more OpenID enabled sites out there which do not know about the chance to have their site promoted for ... http://blog.openiddirectory.com/?p=23