[OpenID] Latest Development in Japan

[Nat Sakimura]

Is there a similar statistics for EU (and US)?
=nat

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Snorri <snorri at snorri.eu> wrote:

>  Very impressive Statistics!
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> The Japan becomes the bow of the OpenID ship!
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> Congratulation for the hard work of OIDF-J Team
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> Cheers
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> -Snorri
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> *De :* general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] *De
> la part de* Nat Sakimura
> *Envoyé :* vendredi 17 octobre 2008 14:00
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> *Objet :* [OpenID] Latest Development in Japan
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> I have been sooo busy that I did not produce any report on OpenID
> developments in Japan since last I have done for mixi back in August.
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> There has been bunch of notable events since then.
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> 2008-9-12 Livedoor Blog adopted "mixi OpenID" group authentication for
> their blog service.
>   It allows the blog article to be published to a limited group. They  same
> is true for commenting etc.
>   Livedoor is one of the major blog provider in Japan (besides many other
> things.) They are also acting as OP.
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> 2008-9-29 NEC released an Authentication Platform Software "NC7000-3A-OI"
> that supports OpenID.
>   It is a federated identity system. It supports both SAML and OpenID.
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> 2008-10-02 SourceForge.JP started to support OpenID
>   Unlike sourceforge.net, it also supports XRI/i-names.
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> 2008-10-06 BIGLOBE started offering OpenID
>   One of the biggest ISP in Japan, NEC BIGLOBE started the service as an
> OP.
>   It uses EV-SSL, and is https only OP.
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> 2008-10-06 Rakuten, the biggest online merchant in Japan, started offering
> OpenID based payment
>   Rakuten, the biggest online merchant in Japan, started offering OpenID
> based payment.
>   By using this system, you will not required to give out your credit card
> number.
>   (You are still required to input security code of the credit card,
> though.)
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> 2008-10-15 Internet.com Survay: 28% Japanese Internet User are aware of
> OpenID.
>   Accroding to the survay by internet.com and marsh research which was
> conducted
>   over 300 internet user (50% male, 50% female, 20% each of 20s, 30s, 40s,
> 50s, 60s),
>   263 of them were using sites that requires authentication. Among them,
> 28% of them
>   knew about OpenID, and 15% were using OpenID.
>   This is a big increase compared to a similar survay back in February
> where
>   only 12% knew about OpenID and only 1.2% of them were using it.
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> Cheers,
>
> --
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> http://www.sakimura.org/en/
> OpenID Foundation Japan
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Nat Sakimura (=nat)
http://www.sakimura.org/en/
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