[OpenID] [SPAM]Re: Latest Development in Japan

Sat Oct 18 14:57:39 UTC 2008

Google (US) should be able to count how many US-resident's blogs have armed the openid module, and estimate how much use there actually is of authenticated comments.

Yahoo (US) should be easily able to count the number of uses of its OP, by distinct OpenIDs. This implies the # of Yahoo account user who have adopted the openid form of a YahooID. Again, they know which Yahoo accounts are US residents.

The folks in Portland, OR should be able to count how many assertions they are issuing, for distinct users. By IP address breakdown, they can track by country the browser doing the indirect communication (or not in, for US stats)

I'm personally a bit more interested in these types of stats, rather than  general awareness. Even more interesting would be to see the rate of change curves over the last 12 months.

Concerning awareness tho, wasn't it the BBC who recently made OpenID ultra-famous through a TV news magazine article? Let's not underestimate the power of such brands and the value of the independent judgment they bring. I know I started programming at age 14 (1979!) because one of my friends was using the BBC micro computer, downloading text documents and 6509-micro programs from the broadcast TV signals, webstyle. I also remember being really frustrated, later, because I could not understand how its "digital" modem worked...given there was no American-style telco line involved ...doing classical analog modulation of a carrier.

From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Snorri
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 2:56 AM
To: 'Nat Sakimura'
Cc: general at openid.net
Subject: [SPAM]Re: [OpenID] Latest Development in Japan

We have few statistics in France that we probably can adapt in the European level,
14,5% of the Internet Users know the name "OpenID" (no necessary exactly what is it)
and 4,7% (72% are bloggers) have already used one time, it's already a lot!
This is why I am saying that your percentages are really amazing (28% = +20 million?)....

I have ordered a new study on a panel of 230 French Internet Users
And I would like establish similar studies in others European countries
I hope to obtain these new results as soon a possible...

In US...?

-Snorri

De : Nat Sakimura [mailto:sakimura at gmail.com]
Envoyé : samedi 18 octobre 2008 06:16
À : Snorri
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Objet : Re: [OpenID] Latest Development in Japan

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!

The Japan becomes the bow of the OpenID ship!

Congratulation for the hard work of OIDF-J Team

Cheers

-Snorri

De : general-bounces at openid.net<mailto:general-bounces at openid.net> [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net<mailto:general-bounces at openid.net>] De la part de Nat Sakimura
Envoyé : vendredi 17 octobre 2008 14:00
À : general at openid.net<mailto:general at openid.net>
Objet : [OpenID] Latest Development in Japan

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.

There has been bunch of notable events since then.

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.

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.

2008-10-02 SourceForge.JP started to support OpenID
  Unlike sourceforge.net<http://sourceforge.net>, it also supports XRI/i-names.

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.

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.)

2008-10-15 Internet.com Survay: 28% Japanese Internet User are aware of OpenID.
  Accroding to the survay by internet.com<http://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.

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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