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 ...

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 ...

Google has added OpenID support to the moderated comments feature in Blogger. The new OpenID features are only available through the beta version of the service, known as Blogger in Draft, but Google ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenID is an open, decentralized, open-source framework for user-centric digital identity. Think about all the accounts you have online: blogs, wikis, to-do lists, photo galleries. The list is endless ...