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."

Comments

Re:Damned MS...

[Colonel Korn]

Seriously...with the internet being such a dangerous place for the average user. How in the freaking hell is a single sign on going to make it better? I mean really now this seems monumentally stupid.

The only purpose of the OpenID system is to help advertisers and the like track you more accurately. This was never meant to help users. As such, it's not the kind of thing that most Slashdot users will be ignorant enough to use, but it's our job to make sure all of our less informed acquaintances know not to sign up for this Big Brother tracking.