Top government IT officials and representatives from online identity services met today in Washington DC to talk about plans to allow 3rd party certification bodies, called "Trust Framework Providers," to Continue reading »

The good folks over at Mozilla Labs posted a screencast this morning of an experimental new way to log in to websites while using the Firefox browser. The approach leverages Continue reading »

Yesterday, Google made a major change to the search results page that appears when you search for a person's name. Google Profiles, for people who have set them up, now Continue reading »

Google me? I'll Google you! Google has become the de facto public record these days but most people remain in relative obscurity there and/or digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Now_You_Can_Change_What_Google_Says_About_You';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = Continue reading »

You can log in to comment here on ReadWriteWeb with an OpenID, via Facebook Connect or through various other methods. Imagine if you could make "friend" connections with other commenters Continue reading »

Chi.mp, the "online identity aggregator" that not only gives you a place to aggregate your updates but also gives you a free .mp domain name, just received a major makeover. Continue reading »

The most-watched geek event of the day has to be the OpenID UX (User Experience) Summit, hosted at the Facebook headquaters. The most discussed moment of the day will surely Continue reading »

This morning, the OpenID Foundation announced that PayPal has joined the OpenID Foundation Board, becoming the first financial institution to join the Foundation as a sustaining member. Andrew Nash, Sr. Continue reading »

Le Web 2008 conference, the web conference held this week in Paris, was not about bright, shiny, and new. It was about solid, reliable, and usable. The creative energy of Continue reading »

This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced Continue reading »