Category archive: OpenID

Relaunching GetOpenID.com using a server-side Drupal module

OpenID is blowing up!
This morning, the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined as its first corporate board members. But don’t worry: OpenID.net was quick to note that the members are not decision-makers:
While the OpenID Foundation serves a stewardship role around the community’s intellectual property, the Foundation’s board itself does […]

OpenID group on StumbleUpon

Do you Stumble? Do you like OpenID? Do you love this cheesy, anaphoric introduction?
Even if obscure rhetorical devices aren’t your bag, you can still join the brand-spanking-new OpenID StumbleUpon group. StumbleUpon, in case you’re unaware, is a social bookmarking tool and Firefox toolbar with a very strong community backbone. You can post your favorite links, […]

OpenID development bounties announced at OSCON 2006

Four Kitchen Studios is proud to co-sponsor over $50,000 worth of bounties to support OpenID development and inclusion in popular open-source Internet software. We’re contributing both in cash and in kind by designing the handouts for OSCON 2006 and writing the press releases. After OSCON, we’ve agreed to handle the site redesign for iwantmyopenid.org, the […]

I Make Mistakes elevates schadenfreude to a new (more pronounceable) level

scha·den·freu·de (n) Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
Mistakes. Everybody makes ‘em. Everybody loves to hear about other people making ‘em. But why can’t we vote on them according to prevalence and severity? Why??
Calm down, imaginary person in my head! At I Make Mistakes, you can anonymously post your flubs, flaps, and fu—uh, faults—and rate […]

GetOpenID.com launch signals our full support of the OpenID standard

We love OpenID. We’re so hopelessly, head-over-heels, eye-battingly infatuated with the possibility of single sign-ons (SSOs), in fact, that we’ve launched GetOpenID.com, our very own OpenID server and registrar. Oh, and we’ll use it to fully integrate OpenID with all our projects and contracts.
Six Apart (creators of TypeKey and Movable Type), LiveJournal, and VeriSign have […]