OpenID, a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials, gained significant momentum over the last year as Google, Microsoft, ...

A thorny problem for many organisations running a website is the registration process for new users. The marketing department wants to capture as much information about each new user as possible, but ...

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 ...

Imagine a much friendlier internet, one where you only have to remember one password. A place where it's easy to keep a tight grip on your personal contact information, deciding which websites have ...

You may not know it, but you probably have an OpenID. If you have a Yahoo account, you have an OpenID. If you have a Windows Live account, you will soon have an OpenID. And today, if you have a Google ...

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User-centric identity, which puts users at the center of identity transactions, is fast capturing the attention of the Web-minded world. In fact, many traditional organizations are looking to blend ...

After some recent considerable advances in the realm of OpenID, Webmonkey had the chance to chat with two of OpenID's greatest evangelists and early adopters, Joseph Smarr and John McCrea. Smarr and ...