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Barracuda Labs experts have come across spam emails that lure users to a malicious site that tries to replicate a service similar to OpenID, hoping to gain the trust of potential victims.
OpenID is considered to be a practical solution by many website owners because it saves them the hassle of creating their own use... |
7 May 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Not much of a surprise considering Yahoo's recent announcement that it will now enable users to sign up with a Google or Facebook account, but Flickr is now rolling out support for Facebook account registrations. Flickr was actually the first Yahoo product to support registrations with third-party accounts when ... |
21 January 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Yahoo has long given up on competing directly with the likes of Google or Facebook, in search or social networking, and it's now even beginning to offer integration with both services. Yahoo is now opening up to third-party registrations enabling users with a Google or Facebook account to sign up for Yahoo and h... |
19 January 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Just one day after Flickr announced its Facebook integration, the site is announcing that Google users will be able to register and log in using their existing accounts. This is done via the wonders of OpenID and will be extended to other OpenID providers beyond Google."Flickr is rolling out a new feature to make it ... |
29 October 2010
06:19 GMT |
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While most tech-savvy folks would find it hard to believe, there are still plenty of people who don't have a Google account. Signing up for a new account on the web can be quite a hassle though, so Google is now making it easier for Yahoo users to create a Google account."How many times have you created a new ac... |
7 September 2010
15:31 GMT |
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Digg is planning to launch a major revamp of the site and now it's shedding more details on the login part. The site says a great focus was on supporting outside services as identity providers to make it easier for users to register for Digg. The new Digg will support five providers, though practically a lot mor... |
18 March 2010
12:36 GMT |
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Google is one of the biggest web companies in the world, if not the biggest, but, surprisingly it's also one of the more open. It's not without its flaws but it looks like it's trying and has certainly done a lot more than its competitors. So, its latest hire of open web advocate Chris Messina shouldn&... |
8 January 2010
11:36 GMT |
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Identity is becoming a crucial component online and there is a definite need for a convergence of all the different identities users have set up over the years on various websites and services. Increasingly, a number of identity providers, Facebook, Twitter, Google, are becoming the de facto standard providers. At t... |
5 January 2010
07:13 GMT |
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Online identity is one of the biggest themes on the web today and a number of providers, most notably Facebook and Google, are battling it out to become the most powerful player in the field. On the other hand, there is a great tendency towards integration and interoperability between various web services. One incre... |
22 December 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Yahoo recently announced a thorough partnership with Facebook that would take the integration between the two services to the next level. Facebook features will show up in most Yahoo products and users will be able to update their status on both sites in one go. Now, Yahoo is clarifying some details about what exactl... |
14 December 2009
11:15 GMT |
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Google has been a big backer of OpenID, though that's not exactly a surprise when you have the login standard's creator, Brad Fitzpatrick, working for you. Fitzpatrick has announced that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenID logins. He has also added that WebFinger for Gmail now supports Google Profile... |
26 November 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Password and account management is one of the biggest hassles to people using any sort of online service. Nobody likes to keep track of dozens of passwords, but, on the other hand, using one password across several sites opens up the door to all kinds of troubles. This problem isn't exactly new, but, despite sev... |
4 November 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Standardized login protocols are finally becoming a real option and are finally beginning to do what they were designed to: make life easier for users. Two formats are currently battling it out, each with its own advantages, an open standard, as the name itself implies, OpenID, and a proprietary one, Facebook Connect... |
21 September 2009
07:10 GMT |
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OpenID, the single sign-on login system that is seeing increased support from several large companies and organizations, has scored another great victory, at least when it comes to public recognition, by having the US government support both OpenID and InfoCards on a number of official sites in a pilot program. Ten p... |
9 September 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Online identities are becoming an integral part of life; if someone wants to find out more about you it wouldn't take too long to find the information they want on the web. The problem isn't finding the info, it's the fact that it is scattered across dozens of online accounts from social networks to ph... |
15 August 2009
04:29 GMT |
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Google has announced that its implementation of the OpenID login standard, Google OpenID Federated Login API, has been extended to support Google Apps. This will allow individuals who have accounts on a service or application deployed by a business, school or other organization on Apps to use their login credentials... |
30 July 2009
10:32 GMT |
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Drupal, one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), has gotten a lot more social with the release of a new module allowing users to authenticate using popular login standards like Facebook Connect or OpenID. The module, called Socialize, was developed by Gigya, a startup with experience in social media ... |
25 July 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Google is all about an open Internet, even with the threat of several anti-trust investigations looming, and it is a strong backer of open web technologies. It has been supporting the OpenID login standard for a while, for example in its blogging platform Blogger, but now it plans to go even further and make every Go... |
9 July 2009
04:30 GMT |
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OpenID scores a major victory today as Facebook, the largest social networking site in the world, becomes a “relying party” for the log-in standard. Facebook's announcement of full support for the log-in standard is somewhat surprising as it already has what many believe to be a competitor to the ope... |
21 May 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have put aside their feuds and possible partnerships on the online advertising and search markets and have joined forces in an effort designed to promote open identity management on the web. In this context, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google together with IBM and Verisign have become the first c... |
7 February 2008
10:00 GMT |
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368 million users are now able to access multiple Internet sites as a part of the OpenID project. The number has just about tripled after Yahoo! yesterday decided to hop on and bring along its 248 million active registered users.The Sunnyvale based company will first open the OpenID program in public beta on the 30t... |
18 January 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Isn't it a nuisance that whenever you want to comment on any of your friend's Blogger account posts, you can't link back to your blog, because you're using some different OpenID-enabled service, such as LiveJournal or WordPress? It is, don't answer that, it was only a rhetorical question.It ... |
3 December 2007
06:09 GMT |
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