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.

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 ...

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 ...

Webware has been covering the Web authentication standard OpenID since September 2006. It's a powerful alternative to traditional name-and-password Web access control, but it's so completely different ...

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 ...