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E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet

Posted by timothy on from the he'll-have-to-do-a-lot-of-convincing dept.

FullyIonized writes "A few years ago Microsoft's Passport technology made headlines as Microsoft predicted e-commerce nirvana and conspiracists predicted a new Big Brother. Not to be outdone, Sun spearheaded the Liberty Alliance . Years later, I still don't have a single sign-on, not that that's a bad thing. Enter Andre Durand who started his first business with BBS software, then headed up Jabber, and now has started Ping Identity. The big distinction: the federated identity software is open-source. The Denver Post has the story."

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  1. Funniest part of the article by LeninZhiv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Durand heads to the cocktail bar, reaches behind it and grabs a brand-new $200 Nokia N-Gage. Any self-respecting geek knows it's the coolest combination cellphone, e-mail device and video game around.

    Greatest unintentional humour of the year!

  2. Re:About time too by oexeo · · Score: 5, Funny

    > There's no way I can keep track of the 200-odd different passwords I have

    Don't worry, I keep track of all your passwords for you