( OpenID + MS ) vs Google February 12, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : web2.0 , trackbackI didn’t make many predictions this year, the colour orange being a tough act to follow, but I did suggest that OpenID versus Google might become a significant battle.
What is OpenID?
OpenID: an actually distributed identity system
OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.
It’s ony February, but already we have the news that Microsoft is backing OpenID.
Wired.com
Microsoft has joined forces with the Web 2.0 vanguard, as Bill Gates announced Tuesday in a keynote at the RSA security conference that Microsoft was going to support a distributed identity system known as OpenID. OpenID is an open and distributed system that allows a user to log-in to multiple sites via a single user-name that is a URL. When trying to log-in to a service, the user is diverted back to their authentication site, where they enter their password, and the identity site tells the web service that the person is who they say they are.
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InfoWorld
The announcement was made Tuesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco during a joint keynote by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie that was long on vision and short on specifics.Microsoft pledged to work to integrate OpenID with its CardSpace identity management software, which is now available in conjunction with Windows Vista. “The marriage of CardSpace and OpenID 2.0 is actually a giant step forward,” Mundie said.
Of course it’s always possible that Google will embrace OpenID as well, then Yahoo! would have to follow suit, meaning the end of the story and a happy one too.
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