<div dir="ltr">Is there a similar statistics for EU (and US)?<div><br></div><div>=nat<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Snorri <span dir="ltr"><snorri@snorri.eu></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Very impressive Statistics! </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The Japan becomes the bow of the OpenID ship!</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Congratulation for the hard work of OIDF-J Team</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Cheers</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">-Snorri</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:general-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">general-bounces@openid.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:general-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">general-bounces@openid.net</a>] <b>De la part de</b>
Nat Sakimura<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> vendredi 17 octobre 2008 14:00<br>
<b>À :</b> <a href="mailto:general@openid.net" target="_blank">general@openid.net</a><br>
<b>Objet :</b> [OpenID] Latest Development in Japan</span></p>
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<p></p><div class="Ih2E3d">I have been sooo busy that I did not produce any report on
OpenID developments in Japan since last I have done for mixi back in August. <br>
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There has been bunch of notable events since then. <br>
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<span>2008-9-12 Livedoor Blog adopted "mixi
OpenID" group authentication for their blog service. </span><br>
</div><span> It allows the blog article to be
published to a limited group. The<span style="color:#1F497D">y </span> same is
true for commenting etc. </span><br><div class="Ih2E3d">
<span> Livedoor is one of the major blog
provider in Japan (besides many other things.) They are also acting as OP. </span><br>
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<span>2008-9-29 NEC released an Authentication
Platform Software "NC7000-3A-OI" that supports OpenID. </span><br>
<span> It is a federated identity system. It
supports both SAML and OpenID. </span><br>
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<span>2008-10-02 SourceForge.JP started to support
OpenID </span><br>
<span> Unlike <a href="http://sourceforge.net" target="_blank">sourceforge.net</a>,
it also supports XRI/i-names. </span><br>
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<span>2008-10-06 BIGLOBE started offering OpenID</span><br>
<span> One of the biggest ISP in Japan, NEC
BIGLOBE started the service as an OP. </span><br>
<span> It uses EV-SSL, and is https only OP. </span><br>
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<span>2008-10-06 Rakuten, the biggest online merchant
in Japan, started offering OpenID based payment</span><br>
<span> Rakuten, the biggest online merchant in
Japan, started offering OpenID based payment. </span><br>
<span> By using this system, you will not
required to give out your credit card number. </span><br>
<span> (You are still required to input security
code of the credit card, though.)</span><br>
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<span>2008-10-15 Internet.com Survay: 28% Japanese
Internet User are aware of OpenID. </span><br>
<span> Accroding to the survay by <a href="http://internet.com" target="_blank">internet.com</a> and marsh research which was
conducted </span><br>
<span> over 300 internet user (50% male, 50%
female, 20% each of 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s), </span><br>
<span> 263 of them were using sites that
requires authentication. Among them, 28% of them </span><br>
<span> knew about OpenID, and 15% were using
OpenID. </span><br>
<span> This is a big increase compared to a
similar survay back in February where </span><br>
<span> only 12% knew about OpenID and only 1.2%
of them were using it. </span><br>
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<span>Cheers, </span><br>
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-- <br>
Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br>
<a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/" target="_blank">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br>
OpenID Foundation Japan</div><p></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br><a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br>
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