tag:,2009:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570- 2009-10-30T14:52:48Z Comments for Wordpress, 37Signals Join OpenID Bandwagon Movable Type 4.23-en tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570 2007-03-07T08:10:56Z 2007-12-16T23:11:10Z Wordpress, 37Signals Join OpenID Bandwagon OpenID has gained two more high profile Internet company supporters. Wordpress announced their support today and also Chris Messina did a bit of snooping and discovered that 37Signals support is nigh. These two organizations join Digg, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, LiveJournal, MediaWiki, and others in their support of OpenID. There are still gaps - e.g. even... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com OpenID has gained two more high profile Internet company supporters. Wordpress announced their support today and also Chris Messina did a bit of snooping and discovered that 37Signals support is nigh. These two organizations join Digg, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, LiveJournal, MediaWiki, and others in their support of OpenID. There are still gaps - e.g. even in today's Wordpress announcement, it's worth noting that you can't actually sign into your Wordpress blog with an OpenID a/c. But you can (as Chris Messina explained) use your WordPress.com URL as an OpenID elsewhere, making WordPress.com an “identity provider”.

Remember our poll, which showed that 52% of respondants either don't have an OpenID account or don't know what it is? Well that's slowly changing - and every time a new Internet company supports OpenID, the chances of OpenID becoming the decentralized identity service of choice increase. 

]]> But as Marc Canter recently pointed out, Sxip is the loser in all this - having once been the poster child for open identity on the Web. Sxip is still claiming to be "the market leader in Identity 2.0" though - and it does seem to have a nice deal with Google, which just happens to be the only one of the Big 3 not to have jumped onto the OpenID bandwagon yet...

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29882 Comment from Nick Lothian on 2007-03-07 Nick Lothian http://wwwscope.com/ Google is the "only one of the Big 3 not to have jumped onto the OpenID bandwagon yet..."?

AFAIK Yahoo don't support it either. There's a third party proxy provider which uses the Yahoo authentication API - something which I think would be possible using the Google Authentication API, too....

]]> 2007-03-07T09:16:06Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29883 Comment from dave mcclure on 2007-03-07 dave mcclure http://500hats.typepad.com/ while i'm hopeful that OpenID catches on, i'm still skeptical it will get adopted by mainstream internet users.

ultimately, identity standards come down to just 3 things:
1) usability
2) usability
3) usability

if OpenID gets simpler/easier enough that my grandmother can use it, then maybe it will fly.

more grumpy old man thoughts here:

Silicon Valley vs Middle America
http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/02/silicon_valley_.html

]]> 2007-03-07T10:50:38Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29884 Comment from Simon Willison on 2007-03-07 Simon Willison http://simonwillison.net/ Nick: it's possible to build idproxy.net for Google accounts, but it's not particularly pleasant as the Google auth API insists you associate with a particular Google service (Calendar for example). I actually had it working a few months ago but didn't launch it because it wasn't hugely smooth and would have made the service harder to explain. I may well revisit it in the future though.

]]> 2007-03-07T11:28:10Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29885 Comment from Thejesh GN on 2007-03-07 Thejesh GN http://www.techmag.biz/thejeshgn WordPress is just a producer and not consumer. I would have like if they had accepted my openId to login to wordpress.com

]]> 2007-03-07T12:41:28Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29886 Comment from Ben Werdmuller on 2007-03-07 Ben Werdmuller http://curverider.co.uk/blog/ if OpenID gets simpler/easier enough that my grandmother can use it, then maybe it will fly.

This hits the nail on the head. I think one way OpenID could be a lot easier to use is by handholding: a lot of people aren't aware that they have an OpenID, or what their actual OpenID login is. (Logging in with a URL seems kind of counterintuitive.)

But we know what the major OpenID providers are: Wordpress, AOL, Livejournal, Typekey. So rather than just an OpenID login with the orange icon, why not give them the option to just type in their regular username if they're a member of those services? I might not know that my OpenID is openid.aol.com/my-screen-name, but I sure as hell know my AIM screen name. Why make things harder than they need to be?

We're going to be doing this on all our upcoming projects.

]]> 2007-03-07T13:04:54Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29887 Comment from hombrelobo on 2007-03-07 hombrelobo http://hombrelobo.com I see OpenId really booming when there is an easy script to include in my blog / site / server, so I can use my own domain as my OpenID provider.

Or even a service provided by domain registar making my domain my OpenId.

]]> 2007-03-07T13:12:15Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29888 Comment from Diego on 2007-03-07 Diego http://webwebusability.wordpress.com/ http://webwebusability.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/wordpress-openid-not-really/

Wordpress' support of OpenID is not complete. While they might be an OpenID provider, I still can't sign in using any provider. This doesn't go the same way OpenID does. If that's "supporting" OpenID, then OpenID wouldn't solve the problem of single sign on...

]]> 2007-03-07T14:31:26Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29889 Comment from Sam Sethi on 2007-03-07 Sam Sethi http://www.vecosys.com Identity in the form of OpenID is just taking shape with i-names and Cardspace support coming together. Give it time back in January we had nothing better than a fragmented/competing set of ID standards.

I currently think about the future being a set of services together collectively termed iPALS. identity, presence, attention, location, services with each part co-existing.

Finally as for Google they will be typically arrogant and will probably only use something that they invented in-house e.g why create Gdata instead of extending APP.

I guess they will launch a rival to Microsoft's CardSpace add a few of their own proprietary features and then announce some sort of interoperability to OpenID. Or worse still Google will announce support only for i-names just as they begrudgingly supported RSS and XML-RPC.

]]> 2007-03-07T15:29:44Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29890 Comment from Jim Pick on 2007-03-07 Jim Pick http://jimpick.com/ You're misreading what Marc Canter said about Sxip.

They're not losing out. Sure, their old platform is dead, but they switched fully over to pushing OpenID as their business model about a year and half ago.

So, basically, Wordpress has jumped on the bandwagon with Sxip and all the others. I'm sure Sxip's investors are very happen that they've bet on the right horse.

Microsoft is the loser in this, but they've already hedged their bets wrt. OpenID as well. Where's Apple?

]]> 2007-03-07T16:15:20Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29891 Comment from Jim Pick on 2007-03-07 Jim Pick http://jimpick.com/ s/happen/happy/

]]> 2007-03-07T16:17:05Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29892 Comment from mobiKAR.net on 2007-03-07 mobiKAR.net http://mobiKAR.net But how use OpenID for mobile phones (WAP pages)?
// mobiKAR.net - mobile KARAOKE

]]> 2007-03-07T17:33:13Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29893 Comment from Jitendra on 2007-03-07 Jitendra http://karmaweb.wordpress.com Its great that so many people are supporting OpenID...We now need more sites to accept OpenID based authentication...

]]> 2007-03-07T22:42:57Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29894 Comment from Alpesh Nakar on 2007-03-07 Alpesh Nakar http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog I have been using openid for quite sometime now and i think it will take sometime to take off.
Its great that wordpress.com now supports, just as my blog does ;-)

Cheers!
Alpesh

]]> 2007-03-08T02:07:55Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29895 Comment from evden eve nakliyat on 2007-03-08 evden eve nakliyat http://www.nakliyat-nakliye.com very
very
nice......

]]> 2007-03-08T20:14:16Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29896 Comment from Gurbux Kaur on 2007-03-11 Gurbux Kaur http://www.allpostersdirect.info Great blog I have some one in mind that would be interested. Thank you.

]]> 2007-03-12T01:12:38Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29897 Comment from pzno.com on 2007-03-29 pzno.com http://www.pzno.com look,thanks.

]]> 2007-03-29T16:04:53Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3570-comment:29898 Comment from BookMap on 2007-04-15 BookMap http://www.bookmap.ru To me kazhet'sya that OPENID will not be strong rasprostronyat'sya.

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