Why openID will fail
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Martin Strandbygaard just gave an introductory talk about openID, at Open Source days in Denmark, Given the recent discussion about openID and security, mostly the phishing opportunities it created I was interrested to hear the talk.
Yes I have an openID, I use it at like 2-3 sites.. why.. because most of the sites haven't adopted yet..
Martin gave an overview of different sites already allowing people to use openID to log on. And also which sites today allow you to create an openid identity with them that you then can use elsewhere. Yes you can use your LiveJournal, or Yahoo Account as an OpenID. I'm not doing that. I'm running my own Open Source Open ID server (funny he didn't touch that subject).
When he continued to discuss adoption he mentionned that even the company from RedMond was starting to allow people to logon with their OpenID , however just an OpenID from a restricted set of OpenID servers.
I asked where on the Yahoo site I could log...
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SOURCE: http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog
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