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Read a post in Techcrunch by Michael Arrington that asserts a notion that has been nagging at me – namely that the “Big 4″ Internet companies (MS, AOL, Google and Yahoo) are exploiting the buzz of Open ID without providing any real value to the Internet community. They have all set themselves up as ID [...]

So the boss dropped me a note yesterday with a heads-up that Yahoo just announced they are going to support OpenID. Essentially, if you have a Yahoo account, you now have an OpenID. This is great news, since it will triple the number of people who have an OpenID. Federated Identity for the masses. I [...]

I’ve been reading about OpenID and thinking it’s a great idea, but had not actually jumped in and started using it until tonight. I had one disconcerting experience up front. Namely the first identity provider I gave my information too appears to be pretty fly-by-night. A google search of Open ID returned both OpenID.net, the [...]