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I was forbidden by the wife to buy any more books so not played around much recently :-)<div><br></div><div>Mainly struck me as it's a site completely separate from Amazon but uses OpenID (rather than the usual sub-domain usage i've seen). When i looked at Google's equivalent http://www.boutiques.com a while back it used vanilla uid/pwd (not even google auth).</div><div><br></div><div>Be interested to see what other major players are using OpenID as the primary auth mechanism now.<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: Re: [OpenID] New Amazon Shopping Site uses OpenID<br>From: dick.hardt@gmail.com<br>Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 16:39:34 -0700<br>CC: general@openid.net<br>To: weblivz@hotmail.com<br><br>
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<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"><base>Not really news (not intending to be dismissive). Amazon has had OpenID parameters in their login for quite some time now ... just log in and out of <a href="http://amazon.com" target="_blank">amazon.com</a> ... given the newness of myhabit, you likely just did notice.<div><br><div><div>On 2011-05-03, at 4:11 PM, Steven Livingstone Pérez wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">Just noticed Amazon's new shopping site </font><a href="http://www.myhabit.com/" style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt" target="_blank">http://www.myhabit.com</a><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> has an interesting use of OpenID in that it directly sends you to Amazon via an OpenID authentication request, asks you to log in with your *normal* Amazon account and sends you back to the store.</font><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">I've not seen many other major companies using OpenID in the wild as directly this - certainly a pleasant surprise.</font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">/steven</font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://twitter.com/weblivz" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/weblivz</a></font></div>_______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:general@lists.openid.net">general@lists.openid.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general" target="_blank">http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div> </body>
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