Open Identity Exchange Launches at RSA
Washington, D.C. and San Francisco — March 3, 2010 — Industry leaders Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton today announced at the RSA Conference 2010 the formation of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) www.openidentityexchange.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to building trust in the exchange of online identity credentials across public and […]
OpenID UX Summit at Sears Report
Last Thursday over 60 OpenID advocates met at Sears World Headquarters in Chicago for a full day of discussions on progress to date and future plans for OpenID deployment and utilization. There is a summary of the event on the OpenID Foundation wiki. See Twitter coverage of the event with the hash tag #openidux Who […]
Ping Identity Joins OpenID Foundation Board
Ping Identity®, the leader in Internet Identity Security, today announced it has joined the OpenID Foundation to help develop, promote and extend digital identity and choice on the Web. Pam Dingle, a senior technical architect in Ping Identity’s Office of the CTO, will represent the company on the OpenID Foundation’s board of directors. “The marketplace […]
Mobile Services in Japan begin OpenID experiment
22 companies including NTT docomo, KDDI, Sony, NEC, etc. have formed “ID Platform Federation Forum”. With JPY12 billion (approx. US$1.3M) in funding from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, the forum members will initiate the experiment, based largely on OpenID, by the end of the year. The forum itself is operated by Nomura Research […]
Payment Working Group started at OpenID Foundation Japan (OIDF-J)
In response to the newly enacted “Fund Transfer and Payment Services Act of Japan”, the OpenID Foundation Japan has announced the formation of the “Payment Working Group (WG)” on December 8, 2009. The Payment WG consists of 14 member companies and aims to create whitepapers on ”Guidelines for Secure Management of Information”, “Guidelines for Outsourcing” […]
OpenID Foundation Board Update – Expanded Representation
The voting results are in for the 2010 Board. In addition to a strong group of returning members, we’re glad to see four new members who will bring tremendous value and new perspectives. Marc Frons, CTO of the New York Times Daniel Jacobson, Director of Application Development at NPR John Bradley, who has been focused […]
OpenID 2009 Year in Review
It’s been an exciting year. A number of initiatives that were started in 2008 had a direct impact on the success of the platform in the past year, so many thanks to all the organizations and individuals who have contributed. Here’s a quick summary of the state of OpenID. There are over 1 billion OpenID […]
Etelos to Enable OpenID® Across Multiple Business Apps
Etelos, Inc. a developer and operator of private-labeled marketplaces for Web-based business applications, announced support for OpenID for user authentication and Single Sign On (SSO) within the Etelos Platform Suite (more)
OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use!
Google, Yahoo!, and MySpace have launched support for the OpenID OAuth Hybrid Protocol, which combines OpenID authentication (sign in) with OAuth authorization (access control) into a single interface. Websites that accept OpenID can now let the hundreds of millions of users who already have either a MySpace, Google, or Yahoo! account sign in and enable […]
Open identity for the government
Chris Messina is a community board member of the OpenID Foundation, long time advocate for citizens of the web, and prolific blogger on all things “open”. Today in collaboration with Vivek Kundra, the nation’s first CIO, we are announcing a pilot program intended to enable individual citizens to login to government websites with their existing […]