OpenID is a decentralized identity system that will not crumble when one company turns evil or goes out of business. Not sure whether Brad infers Microsoft or SixApart, but OpenID is indeed an interesting idea – a global identifier that uses your blog software or community application to return IDs. Nothing introduced previously has ever succeed. I don’t think OpenID would turn out to be different, but I hope I can be proved wrong.
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Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott
Jul 6 2005