<html><head><base href="x-msg://680/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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">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="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font class="Apple-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; ">http://www.myhabit.com</a><font class="Apple-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="Apple-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="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">/steven</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://twitter.com/weblivz">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">http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>