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Feb 14, 2008

OpenID With Hardware Authentication

TrustBearer Labs has come up with an OpenID service that leverages authentication devices (via Slashdot) like smart cards, USB tokens and fingerprint biometrics. You can start using the service if you have one of their supported devices. Though I am not sure if hardware authentication will be popular, this service demonstrates a different way in which OpenID can be implemented. [Continue]

Feb 7, 2008

OpenID Gets Chairs From Big Players

OpenID is getting popular after all. Yahoo! already announced its support and now Microsoft, Google, IBM and VeriSign have lent their commitment too by joining the foundation. [Continue]

Jan 22, 2008

Telegraph Takes OpenID Mainstream

Munir Umrani notes that the Telegraph is going to make OpenID mainstream by becoming a provider. The Telegraph will soon become the first newspaper in the world, and the first British media company, to become an OpenID provider. Readers will be able to begin using the service from the end of February. [Continue]

Jan 17, 2008

Yahoo! Too Takes The OpenID Plunge

Yahoo! now implements OpenID, so you can now use your Yahoo! ID to login into a service that demands an OpenID. [Continue]

Dec 8, 2007

DiSo, A OpenID And OAuth Prototype

For people like me, who were looking out for something to do with OpenID and OAuth, there is something cooking up already - DiSo. In fact it is more than that, there is use of XFN and one of my other favorite tools, WordPress. Enough about the tools, yes, they do get me excited. [Continue]

Dec 6, 2007

OpenID 2.0 Is Here

After what seemed like a never-ending debate, OpenID 2.0 is finally ready. The OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0 specifications were approved through extensive community participation. The attribute exchange specification is something that can bring in convenience for the users and perhaps expand OpenID adoption. [Continue]

Nov 30, 2007

Google Brings OpenID To Blogger

I will soon be able to comment on blogs done using Blogger using my OpenID, which is this blog’s URL. Google is bringing OpenID to the new Blogger. OpenID enables them to support other URLs which are OpenIDs, like the blog URLs from other blogging services like LiveJournal and WordPress.com, as the image shows. [Continue]

Oct 9, 2007

OpenID Site Redesigned, Using WordPress

Simon Willison likes the OpenID.net site. Another trivia, it has been redone using WordPress 2.3. Yes, WordPress is suitable for many non-blog web sites. [Continue]

Sep 29, 2007

oAuth Brings Open Authentication

We have been using and seeing advantages of OpenID. It has seen its share of criticism, and a lot of it comes from the fact that OpenID is about identification, it is not about authorization. As a natural succession, we are about to see something that will assist this - oAuth. [Continue]

May 9, 2007

Sun Supporting OpenID

Sun is taking effort to support and use OpenID (press release). Tim Bray offers his explanations and views. The OpenID service only for the Sun employees is a novelle way of using OpenID. [Continue]

OpenID With Hardware Authentication

OpenID Gets Chairs From Big Players

Telegraph Takes OpenID Mainstream

Yahoo! Too Takes The OpenID Plunge

DiSo, A OpenID And OAuth Prototype

OpenID 2.0 Is Here

Google Brings OpenID To Blogger

OpenID Site Redesigned, Using WordPress

oAuth Brings Open Authentication

Sun Supporting OpenID

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