And the winner is, OpenID
OpenID won the Next Web Award in the category “Disruptors”. You can still vote for the Webware 100. OpenID gets more and more attention in the public. Good!
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State of OpenID – April 2007: By the numbers
Scott Kveton of JanRain (the company behind Jyte and MyOpenID) has posted his first post in what will hopefully become a long series of State of OpenID posts. He quickly runs through the numbers behind the ever growing adoption of OpenID in the wild:
- Adoption continues: some big companies are joining in.
- User totals: 75 million potential OpenID users.
- More sites coming on-line: 5 – 7% growth
- OpenID 2.0 continues to bake: the standard is actively being developed.
- More servers than sites: this is actually negative, many providers but few consumers.
- Integrated social networking: first steps towards a decentralized social network?
Highrise opens up
Just a few days ago 37Signals launched Highrise and the feedback has been overwhelming. A search for “technorati” shows up with more than 6’500 hits. Along with many praises, many were not too happy that some features are available for the professional accounts. But 37Signals listen to feedback and react immediately: they added some features to the lower subscription plans:
When we launched we only offered Cases on Plus, Premium, and Max plans. There was a fair bit of negative reaction to that decision. We hear you. So today we’ve made a change. Now all plans include some Cases.
- Plus, Premium, and Max continue to include unlimited Cases
- The new Solo plan (explained below) includes unlimited Cases
- Basic includes 5 Cases
- Personal includes 3 Cases
- Free includes 1 Case
And most exciting of all they upped the maximum number of Contacts from 25 to 250! And they added a Single user plan, that will be really interesting for freelancers.This makes Highrise definitely the CRM-Tool of choice.
Congratulations 37Signals, if only every company would react so soon to user feedback
P.S.: On a side note that is really interesting to me:
Another interesting stat is that 9% of the people signed up are using OpenID. Lots of early adopters on board!
Yet another OpenID Provider (WordPress)
I was pretty excited earlier today, when I read that WordPress.com would start providing their users with OpenIDs, but most importantly accept OpenID as an authentication method, becoming a Consumer. Sadly the news where wrong… WordPress is just another OpenID Provider but they won’t accept OpenID as authentication mechanism. This significantly reduces the importance of this news: we have enough OpenID Providers, what we need are consumers. By now everybody, yes really everybody, has about 2 OpenID Identities, but besides blogs there are very few places we can use.
It is easy for sites to provide their users with OpenID, but accepting them is a major barrier…
Sorry to spoil it for you, but I’m can’t be bothered with yet another Provider.
OpenID & AOL
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:I hope that they accept OpenIDs for their products soon, as it obviously increases the reachability.
- 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.
