Massive OpenID Adoption
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I find the openID whitelisting for spam elimination the most exciting. Finally, a viable mechanism to eliminate email and comment spam. OpenID finally adds one of the key pieces to the online reputation mechanism. This in turn fills a big hole in building communities online.
There remains Google's endorsement
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In Spain, Weblogssl, the most important blog network, with more than 5 million unique users/month announced last week that they will use Openid for their comments.
http://www.weblogssl.com/corp/archivos/2007/02/14-openid-en-weblogs-sl.php
Digg will do it in a few months
http://gigaom.com/2007/02/20/digg-to-support-openid/
OpenId is becoming the defacto identification standard.
Posted by: Juan Luis | February 22, 2007 12:51 PM
Hi Paul - thanks for the write-up! One correction though: I'm not the 'founder' of OpenID - that distiction goes to Brad Fitzpatrick, who is also created of LiveJournal and a bunch of other cool stuff.
I'm not actually officially involved with OpenID at all, other than thinking it's a really great idea.
Posted by: Simon Willison | February 22, 2007 3:16 PM
Simon
my apologies; me and my mouth. But, with presentations like Wednesday's, you should be officially involved with openID. You are a natural born evangelist.
Let me amend with a link to Brad Fitzpatrick's OpenID system launched - The Social Software Weblog
Posted by: Paul Elosegui | February 25, 2007 3:23 PM