Thanks Dick. <br><br>There were 45 press people including a TV. <br>Among the 32 member companies, 23 were present. <br><br>It shows the hight interest of the people towards OpenID in Japan. <br><br>Oh. One more thing. <br>
<br>Portal "Excite Japan" announced the availability of OpenID for Excite Japan Users in conjunction with it. <br><br>=nat<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Dick Hardt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com">dick.hardt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">Congrats Nat!<div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div>On 30-Oct-08, at 1:06 AM, Nat Sakimura wrote:</div>
<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><p>This afternoon, OpenID Foundation Japan held a press conference with its 32 member companies. It is the first time that the member companies are announced to the public. It was also announced that OpenID Foundation Japan is now accepting the members from wider community. </p>
<p>Also, it has announced the partnership with Liberty Alliance Japan SIG to further the harmnonization effort. </p><p>The member companies announced were: </p><p>Asahi Net (ISP)<br> Automation Research Associates (IT)<br>
Cerego Japan (Education)<br> CyberTrust (CA)<br> Excite (ISP/Portal)<br> Infoteria Co. (Web Service Company)<br> Japan Airlines International (Transportation)<br> Japan IBM (IT)<br> Japan Verisign (CA)<br> JCB (Credit Card)<br>
K Opticom (ISP)<br> KDDI (telco)<br> Lin Network (IT/Consulting)<br> Livedoor (Portal/Web 2.0)<br> Mitsui Sumitomo Marine (Insurance)<br> mixi Inc. (SNS)<br> NEC (Manufacturing)<br> NEC Biglobe (ISP)<br> Nifty (ISP/Portal)<br>
Nomura Research Insititute (IT/Consulting)<br> Oki (Manufacturing)<br> Rakuten (Internet Commerce/Financial)<br> SBI Holdings (Financial group)<br> Senshukai (Internet Commerce)<br> Seven Bank (Financial)<br> SixApart (Web 2.0)<br>
Softbank BB (telco/ISP)<br> Sonpo Japan Systems Solution (Insurance)<br> Taihei Computer (Internet Commerce)<br> Technorati Japan (Web 2.0)<br> Zakura (Web 2.0)</p><p>It is quite notable in the sense that now financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies are now on board. </p>
<p>In the presentation, it was announced that it is going to do the following: </p><p>[Techinical]<br> - Technical Seminar Series "OpenID Tech Night"<br> - Create Implementation Guidelines<br> - Discuss potential extensions<br>
- Translation of the documents<br> - Tech Competition and public experimentation<br> - Special Interest Groups (e.g., User Interface,<br> assurance, payment)</p><p>[Business]<br> - Creation of case studies and seminars<br>
- Taking statistics<br> - Business Idea Competition<br> - Research on the legal aspects<br> - Business Seminar "OpenID BizDay"</p><p>[Public Relation]<br> - Seminars for pres people<br> - Seminar with extrernal organizations<br>
- Web site<br> - Helping out to promote the OpenID services<br> of the members. </p><p>For more details, contact : <a href="mailto:contact@openid.or.jp" target="_blank">contact@openid.or.jp</a> </p><br>-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br>
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