[Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric ...

In what may turn out to be an important development for interoperability between Internet services, online giant Yahoo has announced it plans to support OpenID 2.0, a standard designed to enable ...

First 37Signals announced it would drop support for OpenID. Then Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo called OpenID a failure (along with XML and AtomPub). Former Facebooker Yishan Wong's scathing (and sometimes ...

Directed identities allow the identity provider (IdP) to return the actual identifier to the relying party (RP) rather than requiring the user to enter the identifier up front. There are two primary ...

June 18, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google OpenID is an open standard for logging onto various web services with a single digital identity. The tool puts ...

Security: As far as security goes, it's much easier to manage only one username and password rather than 45, right? So you could change your OpenID host password periodically just to keep things more ...

we're late getting to the news. Joining the board of directors are Microsoft, Google, IBM, VeriSign, and Yahoo. While Yahoo has already thrown its weight behind OpenID, Ash Patel, executive vice ...

You may not know it, but you probably have an OpenID. If you have a Yahoo account, you have an OpenID. If you have a Windows Live account, you will soon have an OpenID. And today, if you have a Google ...

A thorny problem for many organisations running a website is the registration process for new users. The marketing department wants to capture as much information about each new user as possible, but ...