Jan
3
SpreadOpenId.org wants to kick start OpenID adoption for 2008
January 3, 2008 | 6 Comments
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 be converting these OpenID owners [...]
Sep
25
First major Telco to support OpenID
September 25, 2007 | 5 Comments
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, because adopting OpenID makes perfectly [...]
Sep
22
Googles Move to an Open API = Adoption of OpenID?
September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 like something we all would [...]
Sep
7
YoWhassup.com: One OpenID for each Facet of your Identity 2.0
September 7, 2007 | 1 Comment
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 Social Network, Artificial Intelligence, Semantics, [...]
Jul
26
300 prooven OpenID enabled Websites
July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 free on the OIDD, so [...]
Jun
6
New Submission: Wetpaint.com Wikis
June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment
The Seattle based startup Wetpaint recently announced that it is now supporting the OpenID framework for managing user identity online. The company has more than 400,000 Wetpaint Wiki communities. The number was at 300K in April and 200K in February.
As for the actual process, OpenID users at Wetpaint need only click “Sign Up� on any [...]
Apr
12
OpenID-enabled twitter Service
April 12, 2007 | 3 Comments
For all of those who have followed the twitter hype over the last few weeks and have not joined yet - this is your chance! A new OpenID enabled service called http://twitterfeed.com reads your blogs RSS-feed every 1-24 hours and posts your new entries to twitter. This way every blogpost can be a post on [...]
Apr
6
Another step in the adoption of OpenID - almost …
April 6, 2007 | 4 Comments
We had an interesting submission to the OpenID Directory yesterday: Reebok has built one of the first commercial sites build around a worldwide brand with OpenID login: Run Easy tries to build communities from runners around the world.
Filed under “social network” Run Easy gives you the chance to find other runners near the place you [...]
Mar
31
Track your expenses with OpenID
March 31, 2007 | 1 Comment
A new submission to the OpenID Directory that makes sense for almost all of us: An online tool to track your expenses, either your own ones or your shared expenses with friends or groups of people, e.g. when traveling together. The site does not only support OpenID, but also a lot of other accounts like [...]
Mar
19
Submission of the Day: Ficlets
March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Ok, here it is: the first AOL product that was “born” with built in OpenID support! The good message is: not only AOL OpenIDs are working with this site, any OpenID should do.
But what is Ficlets all about? Well, it´s like an Web 2.0 approach to collaborative writing. You can write short stories that others [...]
