Archive for September, 2007

Despite some minor issues OpenID is continuing it’s march toward success..

1. More sites/applications are adopting OpenID

• Feedhub - a cool new RSS feed sorter, launched recently and while garnering a fair amount of press, no one mentioned it is OpenID enabled! For the record Feedhub supports OpenID, so go sign-in today and check it out.
• Six Apart - Some fun stuff is going on over at Six Apart, more coming soon!
• Plaxo - is continuing their support of the Open social graph.
• Google - while it is always fun to pontificate about what Google is up to, there is a serious chance that with Brad Fitzpatrick on board we will see Google go OpenID sooner than later.

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Orange SA, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has announced they will verify accounts for their 40 million users to any site supporting OpenID. This is another great step for OpenID and is already being reported on by major blogs.

With organizations like Orange supporting OpenID, stepped up education efforts, and OpenID 2.0 implementations baking in the oven, OpenID is set to close out 2007 strong.

There was a recent NY Times blog post about OpenID, speculating about the future of OpenID and it’s possible conscription into the war against identity theft. Other recent posts mirror concerns/speculations about OpenID, its ability to reach critical mass to be useful, and technical as well as usability issues.

While these are all valid observations it is important to note what OpenID is actually intended to do, solve one problem and solve it well. What problem? The problem of ‘too many user-names and passwords to remember’ and associated symptoms of social network fatigue (SNF), including irritation with continually entering the same personal info (date of birth, gender, etc.) and inability to easily move your online profile around with you to the different sites you visit.

What really needs to happen to make OpenID succeed? More →

JanRain is pleased to announce a new addition to the Facebook Applications Directory, Pibb! By adding the Pibb Facebook application to your account you can easily tie together two end points of your social graph, Facebook and Pibb. Once you add the application to your Facebook account, you will easily be able check for new messages, chat with online friends, and connect up with your Facebook friends on Pibb and vice versa. More →

This is a notice that MyOpenID will be having a brief maintenance outage on 09/12/2007. The outage will be between 8am and 9am US Pacific time. There should be only 15 minutes of actual service interruption during which time we will be performing a database update.

During the outage, the MyOpenID website may be unavailable or unresponsive, and users will be unable log into OpenID-enabled websites using their MyOpenID accounts. The latest information about this and other MyOpenID events can always be found on the Pibb MyOpenID channel.

Note: everything is back up now… thanks for your patience