Monthly Archives: January 2009

PayPal: New Board Member of the OpenID Foundation

Today the OpenID Foundation announced that PayPal joined the board of the OpenID Foundation as the sixth sustaining corporate member. This is certainly a very remarkable addition to the board as PayPal is a well-established brand all over the world and represents an industry that is not part of the board yet and which deals […]

97 Bottles: Beer and OpenID

Sometimes OpenID and discussions about it seem so serious, sometimes academic, and sometimes even stupid. Where is the fun? A more casual app for playing around with? Well, if you like beer, it exists: 97 Bottles.
97 Bottles is only dealing with beer. Users can write reviews about their favourite beers, connect with their friends, and […]

More Security for OpenID

Just in time before year’s end the Provider Authentication Policy Extension (PAPE) was approved as an OpenID specification by votes of members of the OpenID Foundation.
PAPE will help making OpenID more secure. To quote from our Technical Terms page:
This extension (it can be used with OpenID 1.1 and 2.0) allows Relying Parties to request […]