[OpenID] FreeYourID shutting down

[David Recordon]

More to your point though, it's a shame to see an OpenID Provider shut
down but at the same time no one has shown that individual consumers
will pay for identity online.

Johannes Ernst has two recent blog posts about identity business
models, referencing two analysts.  http://netmesh.info/jernst/

--David

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Chris Messina<chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> And it's hilarious that this happened two months ago. And since I spotted it
> on Twitter, I assumed it happened recently.
> Carry on, carry on.
> Sigh.
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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