Coding Passion

As I posted earlier I’m really excited to see that OpenID is started getting ever more popular. It comes to no surprise after Microsoft announcing their support for OpenID that other big players jump on the train. This is AOL’s turn:

It’s not really a secret that AOL has been experimenting with OpenID.  As I’ve said, I think that user-centric, interoperable identity is hugely important to enable the social experiences we’re trying to provide.  This is a work in progress, but things are coming along thanks to our authentication team’s diligent effort.  Here’s where we are today:

• Every AOL/AIM user now has at least one OpenID URI, http://openid.aol.com/<sn>.
• This experimental OpenID 1.1 Provider service is available now and we are conducting compatibility tests.
• We’re working with OpenID relying parties to resolve compatibility issues.
• Our blogging platform has enabled basic OpenID 1.1 in beta, so every beta blog URI is also a basic OpenID identifier.  (No Yadis yet.)
• We don’t yet accept OpenID identities within our products as a relying party, but we’re actively working on it.  That roll-out is likely to be gradual.
• We are tracking the OpenID 2.0 standardization effort and plan to support it after it becomes final.

I hope that they accept OpenIDs for their products soon, as it obviously increases the reachability.