[OpenID] FreeYourID shutting down

[Johannes Ernst]

So why am I tooting my own horn if others will? ;-)

Thanks David.

And congrats on your move to the good/evil/closed/open/borg/empowering  
or whatever it was this week company.



On Aug 25, 2009, at 22:07, David Recordon wrote:

> 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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