April 3, 2007

State of OpenID - April 2007: By the numbers

Christian Decker wrote this in the late afternoon:
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?
It’s really interesting to see some official numbers, let’s hope he keeps us informed :-)

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February 23, 2007

OpenID in 5 Minutes

Christian Decker wrote this mid-morning:
Don’t know what OpenID is? Then let Scott Kveton, the CEO of JanRain, explain it to you and why it’s so important:
I did a talk at Ignite Seattle last week and it was a total blast. I love the 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds each slide format. The scary thing about this is that I was able to get everything across that I wanted to in just 5 minutes. Why on earth have I ever needed an hour to give a talk?! :-)

Click To Play

You can view the video here.
[via Kveton.com]

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November 3, 2006

OpenID Resources

Christian Decker wrote this in the early afternoon:
I love OpenID, but it isn’t really trivial to understand how and why it works, but the Fred Stutzman at claimID have put together a huge list of resources about OpenID.
At ClaimID, we’re pretty enamored with OpenID. OpenID is going to make all of our lives easier, it makes our company more useful and valuable, and more and more smart companies are adopting the standard. That’s pretty exciting to us. I thought it might be useful to collect together some OpenID resources - so we can give our users a little roadmap to OpenID.

1 - What is OpenID?

  • OpenID website - Start here. This site has all the information you need on the distributed identity system that actually works.
  • OpenID Wikipedia entry - A very robust entry that covers a lot of the ongoing developments with OpenID. Do yourself a favor and just bookmark it now.
  • About OpenID - Brian Ellin’s bullet list description of OpenID with great links and Japanese translation.

2 - How does OpenID Work?

3 - OpenID Resource Sites

  • OpenIDenabled.com - This site, from the wonderful folks at JanRain, is host to tons of great information on OpenID. Documentation, protocol specs, how-to’s, FAQ’s - this site is extremely valuable.
  • IwantMyOpenID.com - The OpenID community marketing site and home to the OpenID 50,000 dollar bounty. Headed by Scott Kveton, this effort has had remarkable progress so far.
  • OpenID Mailing Lists - If you’re part of the OpenID community, you’re going to want to join this list. The latest list to be added is the necessary user-experience list.

4 - I want OpenID! Where can I get (and use) an OpenID?

  • ClaimID. Did you know that everyone who joins ClaimID gets an OpenID? Sure, you get all the other good stuff - caching, status monitoring, verification - but you also get an OpenID that you can use all over the net. We admit slight bias here.
  • All the other places. OpenID providers are springing up all over the net. The lists keep growing and growing! If you must use someone other than ClaimID for OpenID, we’re partial to JanRain’s MyOpenID.net, as this site is updated frequently and is very reliable.
  • Where can I use an OpenID? Sites include LiveJournal, Technorati, ClaimID, Wikitravel and Zooomr, with new ones being added frequently.

5 - I am advanced. I want some OpenID Software.

6 - OpenID Bloggers.


[via claimID Blog]

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