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."

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Facebook or Myspace?

[MrEricSir]

"Facebook's 100 million users would mean nearly a doubling of the approximately 120 million OpenID accounts now in use"

The article doesn't mention Facebook. Is the poster sneaking in a snide remark about the similarities between the two sites?

FB V MS

[Amorymeltzer]

That should read "MySpace's 100 million users" not Facebooks.

Facebook is vastly smaller than Myspace, and isn't the point of the story.