off topic - how many people use OpenID ?

Grant Monroe grant at janrain.com
Fri Oct 20 15:26:41 UTC 2006


On 10/20/06, Chris Drake <christopher at pobox.com> wrote:
> No - I don't mean how many total users there are of sites that accept
> multiple login systems including OpenID - I mean - how many people
> are out there actually using OpenID *to* log in to sites.

You initially said that you've discovered there's about 10,000 OpenID
URLs registered worldwide, so Scott was pointing out that every
livejournal user has a url that can be used for openid elsewhere. This
puts the number of people registered in the millions, even if they
aren't all using them yet.
-- 
 Grant Monroe
 JanRain, Inc.



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