OpenID takes a huge leap towards ubiquity with Google support
Today will be the day that we remember OpenID becoming the standard for web authentication and single sign-on.
Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s announcement, Google gave the final boost of credibility that OpenID needed by announcing their move to also become an OpenID provider.
Now the 3 big boys of the internet (Microsoft, Yahoo and now Google) are all OpenID providers, OpenID has taken a huge leap towards true convergence for digital identities.
While all these OpenID provider announcement are coming out, in order to make OpenID truly ubiquitous, all these identity providers that also have services (which they all do), need to also become OpenID relying parties. In other words, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft need to all start accepting OpenID authentications for their all services.
Once that happens, we’ll have true digital identity ubiquity all tied together by OpenID. Here’s to praying that happens sooner than later, so I can cross-off a big pain point in my online world.
Ha… yeah that’s just the rub. No skin of their backs to become providers. It just extends their reach and adds value to having an account on their site. The rubber meets the road when they’re ok with not owning my profile (ie. allowing me to log in with an open ID I have hosted elsewhere).
Tom
29 Oct 08 at 4:32 pm