Microsoft is taking its first major step towards OpenID adoption by becoming an OID provider. Once enabled, users will be able to login to any OpenID enabled site with their existing Windows Live IDs.

OpenID is a geek's paradise, providing an identity credential that Web users can ferry to different blogs, gaming and social-networking sites. So far, the open-source, three-year-old ID framework is ...

Webware has been covering the Web authentication standard OpenID since September 2006. It's a powerful alternative to traditional name-and-password Web access control, but it's so completely different ...

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 ...

A set of security best practices were recently published via wiki for users, providers, and relying parties of OpenID. Someone had recently asked me about a specific application that sits on top of ...

Earlier this year, Jem Stone blogged that the BBC had joined the OpenID Foundation. And a week ago, the BBC hosted a meeting of the OpenID Foundation Content Provider Advisory Committee in New York. I ...