OpenID Goes Corporate
by Eric Norlin, Digital ID World
Thu, 2008-02-07 17:11

Okay, so I wrote the title as a bit of an "insider joke," but the big news this morning is that the OpenID Foundation has taken on several "corporate" board members (where "corporate" means they had to pony up some cash to participate). The new members include: Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo!. Skipping the question of whether future acquisitions will reduce that number, one has to begin to feel that OpenID continues to build significant momentum.

Is it the "year of OpenID?"

I'd say that's too soon to call, but the growing push is starting to get impressive. The hope now is that we can quickly move past establishing a ubiquitous identity layer for the internet, and get to building identity-based applications on top of that identity layer. And by "quickly" I mean sometime in the next 3-5 years. ;-)

--Eric Norlin

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