[OpenID] FreeYourID shutting down

[Chris Messina]

Ouch... another OpenID provider goes down — and this one even sold people
their own domain names...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/25/freeyourid-gives-up-on-trying-to-monetize-openid/

This is particularly interesting given a recent conversation about Author
IDs in the academics community, where Geoff Bilder pointed out that people
don't "own" domains — they lease them, citing that as an argument against
OpenID:

http://network.nature.com/people/mfenner/blog/2009/02/17/interview-with-geoffrey-bilder
http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/breakout-3-author-identity-creating-a-new-kind-of-reputation-online/

Perhaps companies like FreeYourID and Vidoop were simply too early — it
certainly seems like there's plenty of value locked up in owning your own
data and digital identity, but the value prop just isn't obvious enough to
most people... yet.

Chris

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