[OpenID] Seven sites you didn't know were using OpenID

[Brian Kissel]

Hi Lukas,



The OIDF would welcome citations of any websites that are utilizing OpenID
in positive way.  Don Thibeau, the Executive Director, is working on some
upgrades to the website to help communicate the breadth and depth of
deployments and benefits of OpenID.  If you have specific websites, case
studies, blog articles that you’d like to contribute, please do so.  The
more we have from the community, the stronger our story is.



Cheers, Brian



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*From:* Lukas Rosenstock [mailto:lr at lukasrosenstock.net]
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:52 PM
*To:* Brian Kissel
*Cc:* Melvin Carvalho; nathan at webr3.org; openid-general at lists.openid.net
*Subject:* Re: [OpenID] Seven sites you didn't know were using OpenID



Brian,

thanks for sharing your insight! I think we all can understand the business
decisions of these companies.



There's only one concern that I have and that is about the OIDF (openid.net)
promoting such sites as great examples of OpenID adoption. As for my belief
what OpenID stands for they aren't, they're *just* great examples of
delegated signon adoption (and Janrain Engage adoption).



2010/9/21 Brian Kissel <bkissel at janrain.com>


The vision is still there, but the market realities of what it takes to get
adoption are driving things.  When we met with 15 or so media companies in
NYC for the Content Provider Advisory Committee almost two years ago, they
told us point blank that the type in box wasn’t going to work for them.
They wanted a button and brands that consumers were comfortable with.  They
wanted data from the OPs – name, email address, zip code, age, gender, etc.
Google, Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, Flickr, Blogger, etc. were the brands and
services that mattered most at the time. Now Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
and Microsoft LiveID are also important to many RPs.  PayPal, Telcos, ISPs,
banks, cable operators, etc. may also enter the market.  If smaller OPs want
to have a place in the market, they need to earn it, just like a new airline
or phone company would.  There will be RPs who value and benefit from
accepting thousands of individual OPs, but it may not be the major websites,
at least initially.
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