[OpenID] Mixi, the largest Japanese SNS, started to offer OpenID and OpenID based friend/group auth

[David Recordon]

We've also now shipped a plugin for Movable Type that supports mixi  
and pulls a user's name (if they choose to share it) sort of like  
Facebook Connect.
http://www.movabletype.org/2008/08/connecting_mixi_with_movable_type.html

--David

On Aug 20, 2008, at 4:15 AM, Nat Sakimura wrote:

> Dear OpenID community members:
>
> Today, in Japan, there was a big announcement about OpenID deployment.
> It is by the largest Japanese SNS provider, Mixi.
>
> It not only offers OpenID to its users, but also offers the  
> capability to authenticate/authorize based on someones membership in  
> the friend list or mixi community.
>
> I have blogged the full story in my blog. : http://www.sakimura.org/ 
> en/
>
> I think this is a very encouraging news to the OpenID community.
>
> Cheers, and thanx to Mixi.
>
> -- 
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> http://www.sakimura.org/en/
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