More companies join OpenID bandwagon
Online identity verification system OpenID gains steam as prominent web companies adopt its use.
Recently, AOL announced that it will implement the OpenID system for its 63 million subscribers. In the wake of that news, Digg's Kevin Rose announced at a web conference in London that the popularity website will accept OpenID and become an OpenID provider.
“We want to give people the freedom to move around online and this is a way to do it,” Rose said.
Yahoo! and Microsoft have also become OpenID adopters.
Users of OpenID can identify themselves using a URI that they own (a blog or home page, for example). They can then log on to OpenID-enabled sites without registering or opening a new account -- they only need to sign in once to an OpenID provider. This addresses the single sign-on problem that users encounter when signing up for various web services.solves
Big-name web companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft has also addressed the SSO problem by implementing identity systems in their infrastructure.
Recently, AOL announced that it will implement the OpenID system for its 63 million subscribers. In the wake of that news, Digg's Kevin Rose announced at a web conference in London that the popularity website will accept OpenID and become an OpenID provider.
“We want to give people the freedom to move around online and this is a way to do it,” Rose said.
Yahoo! and Microsoft have also become OpenID adopters.
Users of OpenID can identify themselves using a URI that they own (a blog or home page, for example). They can then log on to OpenID-enabled sites without registering or opening a new account -- they only need to sign in once to an OpenID provider. This addresses the single sign-on problem that users encounter when signing up for various web services.solves
Big-name web companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft has also addressed the SSO problem by implementing identity systems in their infrastructure.
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