Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0

An anonymous reader writes "Right on the heels of Microsoft's adoption of the OpenID protocol by announcing their intention to enable OpenID authentication against all Live IDs, Google has announced their intention to join the growing list of OpenID authentication providers. Except it turns out they're using their own version of OpenID that is incompatible with everyone else. It seems that Google will be using their own 'improved' version of OpenID (based upon research and user feedback of the OpenID system) which isn't backwards compatible with OpenID 1.0/2.0, in hopes of improving end-user experience at the cost of protocol compatibility and complexity."

Comments

Re:Slightly Conflicting Vision Statements

[Anonymous Coward]

EMBRACE AND EXTEND!!!!

oh...wait...I'm confused, this a Google article, not a microsoft article

Re:Slightly Conflicting Vision Statements

[mr_mischief]

Google:

1) write a good search engine
2) ???
3) grow to critical mass where you can guarantee yourself users
4) embrace
5) extend
6) release extensions to the community
7) get users based on 1-5 using the new system
8) advertise the hell out of everything to the users on this system, too
9) profit!
10) repeat steps 4 through 9

Microsoft:

1) write decent BASIC tools
2) ???
3) get someone else's OS preloaded by IBM and ride their coattails to ubiquity
4) embrace
5) extend
6) close off extensions
7) hook users through lock-in created in steps 3 through 6
8) extinguish open system
9) profit!
10) repeat steps 4 through 9

The '???' steps come a little early in these. Sorry about that.

Re: Google Version!!

[TaoPhoenix]

Embrace, Beta, Languish!