Microsoft Supports OpenID This week, Microsoft announced the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider (OP). Live ID is Microsoft's standard authentication protocol. Soon anyone with a Live ID account will ...

[Ed. The OpenID protocol is rapidly gaining momentum in the social networking arena. Exemplifying the momentum OpenID is gaining, Symantec recently announced that it would support OpenID in its ...

The OpenID Foundation argues that the new protocol will ensure that developers won’t have to worry about keeping their users’ accounts safe. Instead, this data will be managed by “operators ...

The announcement this week by Yahoo that it is planning to test a beta version of its Yahoo ID that supports the OpenID 2.0 protocol has thrown a bright spotlight on the quickly growing online ...

Last issue I predicted a bit of a slowdown, some bumps in the road perhaps even some fracturing of the OpenID community in the coming year. Scott Kveton disagrees. Well, he would as he’s CEO of ...

OpenID even identifies some potential qualifiers, such as WordPress and Drupal. Full details of the bounty can be found here and info about the OpenID protocol is here.

Back in 2004, Larry Drebes saw the huge potential of social media and realized there would be a need to manage a user’s identity. To this end, he helped to create the OpenID protocol. It was ...