Microsoft is taking its first major step towards OpenID adoption by becoming an OID provider. Once enabled, users will be able to login to any OpenID enabled site with their existing Windows Live IDs.

OpenID is a geek's paradise, providing an identity credential that Web users can ferry to different blogs, gaming and social-networking sites. So far, the open-source, three-year-old ID framework is ...

June 18, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google OpenID is an open standard for logging onto various web services with a single digital identity. The tool puts ...

OpenID is a geek’s paradise, providing an identity credential that Web users can ferry to different blogs, gaming and social-networking sites. So far, the open-source, three-year-old ID framework is ...

MySpace announced this morning that it has joined the OpenID alliance as a provider, freeing millions of MySpace logins to be used across other OpenID-compatible websites. MySpace hopes that, by ...

In what can only be described as a huge victory for the OpenID foundation, Yahoo has announced it will become an OpenID provider at the end of January. Once the new Yahoo ID service is live, Yahoo's ...

A fundamental issue affects the OpenID authentication system, due to its reliance on the Domain Name System, a Sun identity-technology specialist has warned. Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for ...

Facebook users can now log in to the website using their Gmail accounts, the company announced Monday. The social network has become an OpenID relying party, following through on a promise it made at ...

In light of some recent vulnerability announcements, research has shown OpenID to be an untrustworthy system. This is disappointing; I really liked OpenID. But it also conforms to some suspicions I ...

Earlier this year, Jem Stone blogged that the BBC had joined the OpenID Foundation. And a week ago, the BBC hosted a meeting of the OpenID Foundation Content Provider Advisory Committee in New York. I ...