Nothing turns off shoppers faster than having to go through the sign-in process every time they jump over to a website where they’re already a customer or subscriber. Once is enough — and that’s the ...

Another day, another major internet security flaw (step aside, Heartbleed). A bug has been found in OpenID and OAuth 2.0, two authentication programs that let you log into web sites using your Google, ...

After some recent considerable advances in the realm of OpenID, Webmonkey had the chance to chat with two of OpenID's greatest evangelists and early adopters, Joseph Smarr and John McCrea. Smarr and ...

The past few months, we've looked at two different ways to authenticate users coming to a Web site. First, we looked at OpenID, an increasingly popular distributed authentication system. With OpenID, ...

Chi.mp is OpenID + FriendFeed and the service has been in closed alpha for several months. The big difference between Chi.mp and other identity and streaming services is that it's giving away domains.

A recent usability study conducted by Yahoo shows that users are still confused by OpenID—the single sign-on technology out to eliminate multiple usernames and passwords. Tech site Webmonkey reports: ...

[Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric ...

Facebook today integrated OpenID, crossing a major landmark in the openness of social networks. The step is even more significant as Facebook, the biggest social network of them all with over 200 ...

A great many open-source projects and companies have started on SourceForge.net. There's currently about 176,000 registered projects and 1.8 million registered users. Sure, not all of them are active ...