[OpenID] Facebook Cooperation with German Email Providers?

Tue Aug 25 21:06:34 UTC 2009

I think if you were to take a fairly pragmatic view you could likely build a roadmap of uptake by large businesses and how that could help drive real world grassroots experiences of open technologies (openid oauth poco etc).

Assuming one isn't already around.

steven
http://livz.org

> From: jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
> To: chris.messina at gmail.com; sccpffm at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:36:53 -0700
> CC: openid-general at lists.openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Facebook Cooperation with German Email Providers?
> 
> On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:50, Chris Messina wrote:
> 
> > It's using OpenID in a perfectly legitimate way — just not how most  
> > of us expect it to be used (i.e. with a user-facing interface).
> 
> This could be an example of using OpenID white lists and black lists  
> as a strategic business tool. It had to happen sooner or later.
> 
> Is "my users can log into important site X faster than my  
> competitor's" worth some money? You bet ... Would somebody at  
> important site X realize that sooner or later? Absolutely ...
> 
> [This is speculation on my part; I have no inside knowledge.]
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Johannes.
> 
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