SAN FRANCISCO -- Like others in the online world, Brad Fitzpatrick wanted to give people a way to sign in to all sorts of Web sites without needing to remember individual user names and passwords for ...

After some four years of wrangling, the OpenID Foundation has finally given the thumbs-up to OpenID Connect, its protocol for both authenticating users and providing a distributed way to handle ...

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 just started supporting (kind of) the OpenID standard for authentication. The problem is that Google has mangled the protocol -- the most noticeable change is how the username is an email ...

You probably remember that we're big fans of OpenID. The concept, a single sign-on that is owned by no one, is too good to not support. Developer Dare Obasanjo sees the promise of OpenID, but he also ...

Last issue I predicted a bit of a slowdown, some bumps in the road perhaps even some fracturing of the OpenID community in the coming year. Scott Kveton disagrees. Well, he would as he’s CEO of ...

Last issue I talked about the two recent acquisitions in the enterprise single sign-on and software-as-a-service sectors but there was more happening last week, and it was in the user-centric identity ...

I just finished a news story about VeriSign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) secure OpenID services chosen by Microsoft for HealthVault users. The story discusses VeriSign's DNS services and its OpenID services and ...

The CEO of startup JanRain, the company that created OpenID, has left the company. Scott Kveton, writing on his blog, cites his long commute to JanRain’s Portland office Kveton was at JanRain for ...