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MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition
the4thdimension writes "MySpace has joined a coalition of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't familiar with the OpenID coalition, they are a group that seeks to allow users to create a single account/password set to be used on a number of services. Such services already signed up include: Google's Blogger, Wordpress, AOL, Yahoo, Vox, LiveJournal, and others."
Reader gbjbaanb adds a link to the BBC's coverage and points out that MySpace's 100 million users would mean nearly a doubling of the approximately 120 million OpenID accounts now in use, writing: "Initially support is to use MySpace OpenIDs as providers only — i.e. you cannot logon to MySpace with an OpenID created elsewhere, but that policy will change in the future. This should help to make OpenID the de-facto login mechanism for the Internet, now if only Microsoft would support it, there are plenty OSS OpenID libraries available."
...pointing out that...
Wow, proof-reading really is that hard.
Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and stupid comments are intentional.
I guess Microsoft's failure with Passport isn't going to deter MySpace from building a system that no one is going to use either.
You just got bit by what's being called "Muphry's Law. Briefly, it says that any time you write a criticism of someone's spelling or grammar, what you write will inevitably contain a spelling or grammatical error.
The law has had other names, but people seem to like the idea of giving it a name that's a mispelling of the famous Murphy's Law.
(And note my two mispellings in this post. ;-)
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
(And note my two mispellings in this post. ;-)
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Yeah, I used email once. Then I realized that if anyone obtained my username and password, he could totally wreck my reputation!
So I disabled it.