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Jun28

Drupal 6 gets OpenID support - A big move for centralized authentication

I hate remembering logins to all the sites I use. What is worse is half the blogs out there try to get you to register just to post. My memory is already in scarce supply.

That is why I like OpenID. And I've blogged out it before and how boss-awesome it would be to have this implemented over the breadth of the internet.

Drupal, a very popular open source content management system, recently announced that it will be including OpenID version in the next major release of Drupal.

There are thousands upon thousands of Drupal sites out there, many of which are blogs and many of which are popular. The inclusion of OpenID support in the next release (v6.0) is the next step in a global internet-wide nonpartisan centralized authentication system.

Feb19

OpenID, Microsoft, and AOL - Are Yahoo and Google in tow?

Let's face it: Remembering all of our login and passwords for the countless websites we use everyday sucks. I've blogged about it before. . OpenID set out to change all that, and appears to be making strides with both Microsoft and AOL. Will Google and Yahoo be next?
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What is OpenID? "OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." That's fancy talk for "OpenID allows you to login 'everywhere' with one login/password".

AOL = 63 Million More Open IDs