[OpenID] FreeYourID shutting down

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

Perhaps, but then no-one really figured out how to monetize search until 
Google came along and discovered the revenue wasn't in search itself (rather 
adwords). People are still trying to figure out where the money is in SN. I 
suspect the way to make cash in OpenID - or Identity in general won't be as 
obvious as paying for your identity.

Another thing was the barrier of support. Until FB, Google, MS and so on 
provide a reasonable level of support it's hard to sell OpenID (not the idea 
but sell it to a consumer that will pay for it). Therein lies the conundrum 
:-)

Excellent link to Johannes Ernst post!

steven
http://livz.org

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From: "David Recordon" <recordond at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 6:07 AM
To: "Chris Messina" <chris.messina at gmail.com>
Cc: <openid-general at lists.openid.net>
Subject: Re: [OpenID] FreeYourID shutting down

> 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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