off topic - how many people use OpenID ?

[Chris Drake]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for your generous sharing of information.  That was
approximately how many daily users I had estimated for you PIP (which
I love by the way - awesome interface!)

You mention that adoption/acceptance requires market players: what do
you think OpenID 2.0 needs to have in it to help attract these people?

Kind Regards,
Chris Drake


Saturday, October 21, 2006, 2:36:07 AM, you wrote:

KG> Chris:

KG> We at Verisign also run a OpenID server
KG> (pip.verisignlabs.com) "and without getting too specific" the
KG> numbers we see are between 150 and 250 trust requests/day. 

KG> The issue of market adoption and usage clearly centers
KG> squarely on the number of relying parties who have actually
KG> implemented the protocol as part of their registration and sign in
KG> process.  The number of "enabled" users versus the number of
KG> "actual" users is a function of "where can I use it"?  The more
KG> relying parties the faster the "enabled" users will become
KG> "actual" users.

KG> With the announcement by Symantec/Norton to host their own
KG> idP (to Hans's comments earlier) and the Technorati announcement
KG> of today will help drive this process.  Getting major players to
KG> embrace this technology to become part of the community lexicon is
KG> the next step in market adoption and acceptance.

KG> Gary.

KG> -----Original Message-----
KG> From: general-bounces at openid.net
KG> [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net]On
KG> Behalf Of Chris Drake
KG> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:46 AM
KG> To: Scott Kveton
KG> Cc: general at openid.net
KG> Subject: Re[2]: off topic - how many people use OpenID ?


KG> Hi Scott,

KG> No - I don't mean how many total users there are of sites that accept
KG> multiple login systems including OpenID - I mean - how many people
KG> are out there actually using OpenID *to* log in to sites.

KG> You guys run myopenid.com don't you?  Did any more than 500 people log
KG> in to places using this site last week?

KG> Kind Regards,
KG> Chris Drake


KG> Friday, October 20, 2006, 1:46:42 PM, you wrote:

SK>> Grr ... Meant to send this to the list (sorry for the dupe Chris).

>>> Digging around, I've discovered there's about 10,000 OpenID URLs
>>> registered worldwide.  I'd estimate that less than 10% of those are
>>> active, leaving the total pool of people who use OpenID at around 1000
>>> users.
>>> 
>>> Does this sound ball-park to everyone?  Has anyone got evidence to the
>>> contrary?

SK>> I believe every single LiveJournal user (all 10 million) are OpenID enabled
SK>> as well.  So 10,001,000 ... :-)

SK>> - Scott

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