Category: open id

Seems the ball has really started rolling on this one. According to O’Reilly (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/aol_supports_op.html) AOL has started supporting OpenID for AIM users. It’s only a matter of time before Google’s on this one. I had a look at the OpenID specs to get a decent understanding of exactly what the protocol was about. There is…

Microsoft today threw their weight behind OpenID (http://openid.net/) a distributed framework that helps users to identify themselves on the net in a uniform way. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6339813.stm The importance of this cannot be understated. The idea of a single sign-on to the net is The Way Forward. The problem with attempts in the past lay with the…