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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...