myOpenID Announces Support for hCard, MicroID, OpenID 2.0 and More!

myOpenID is JanRain’s public OpenID provider service. As the largest independent site for establishing an OpenID on the internet, myOpenID.com has been online for two years and continues to grow with the spread of OpenID. myOpenID has been built with a focus of providing its members with features that enhance reliability, security, and usability.

Prominent features include:

• Choice of authentication methods including password, Microsoft CardSpace, and Client Certificates.
• Multiple registration personas
• Secure HTTPS identifiers available to each user
• Account activity/audit reports
• Affiliate program for site developers

and we are happy to announce these great new features:

• You can now personalize your myOpenID identity page. Upload your own avatar that will be passed to sites that ask using the Pavatar protocol, choose from a (small, but growing) selection of skins, or scrape your identity page to pull out your information in hCard, and MicroID formats
• You will also notice that your personas page has a new look as well as some new features. Support has been added for OpenID Attribute Exchange, and for adding URLs. This makes it easy to share links to your blog or other websites by showing them on your identity page or passing them along with Attribute Exchange.

Here is an example of my identity page:

Check out my identity page in person!

If anyone has any questions about these new features please post your bug reports/thoughts/feedback in the myOpenID channel on Pibb

~ Kevin Fox

OpenID System is Top Contender…

OpenID Updates Identity Spec

By John Waters

Redmond Developer News

December 2007

“The OpenID Foundation is set to release the final specification for version 2.0 of its free framework for user-centric digital identity. OpenID is a lightweight, decentralized system designed to take advantage of existing Internet protocols and specs — such as URI, HTTP, SSL and Diffie-Hellman — to build identity across domains…”

~ Kevin Fox

JanRain Announces Support for OpenID 2.0

PORTLAND, OR, December 6, 2007—JanRain, the leader in driving adoption of OpenID services, today announced support for OpenID 2.0…. read more

~ Kevin Fox

IIW 2007b… What You Missed

In case you were wondering what you missed at this years Internet Identity Workshop there is a Massive Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) Video Recap over at CenterNetworks which is definitely worth checking out.

Highlights include the OpenID 2.0 specification and OAuth Core 1.0 Final being released. What does all this mean to you? Well it means that the web that we all want is actually starting to emerge.

Check out this video from JanRain’s CTO Michael Graves:

~ Kevin Fox

OpenID 2.0 is Final… No Foolin’

The Internet Identity Workshop 2007b is living up to its billing as a high productivity event for those involved in the identity community, especially OpenID and Oauthers… as OpenID 2.0 has officially been announced as final… don’t believe me? Fair enough… check out these pages:

• http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html

• http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-exchange-1_0.html

• http://openid.net/2007/12/05/openid-2_0-final-ly/

Thats right, everything (IPR) has been signed and the community has taken a proactive step that ensures OpenID will be freely implementable world-wide.

Check out the RSS feed for OpenIDEnabled.com to get an up to date list of all the OpenID 2.0 enabled libraries for Ruby, Python and PHP available from JanRain.

~Kevin Fox

Sys-con Media Covers JanRain Announcement about OpenID 2.0

http://www.sys-con.com/read/471101.htm
By Staff
Dec. 5, 2007

“JanRain announced support for OpenID 2.0. The latest version of OpenID assures its position as the dominant standard for next-generation digital identity. With new features that improve security and usability of OpenID, the user-centric single sign-on and online user-authentication standard is for mass adoption and widespread disruption across the Internet. As the primary contributor to the OpenID code base, JanRain is positioned to deliver the key applications and services that will drive exponential growth of the OpenID ecosystem in 2008 and beyond.”

~Kevin Fox

Heather Green from BusinessWeek Asks ‘Will OpenID Really Deliver?’

This is a well written BusinessWeek article where Heather asks for (and receives) community feedback and thoughts about the future of OpenID, current hang ups, etc. trying to answer the question ‘Will OpenID Really Deliver?’

~Kevin Fox

Silicon Florist Helps JanRain Herald Release of OpenID 2.0

With the release of OpenID 2.0 JanRain has announced support for this new protocol for their MyOpenID, and Jyte services. Read more: JanRain heralds the release of OpenID 2.0

~Kevin Fox

Northwest Innovation Covers JanRain OpenID Upgrade

JanRain upgrades OpenID software
By Staff
Northwest Innovation
December 6, 2007

http://www.nwinnovation.com/story/0012624.html

Portland’s JanRain, which develops open source software for the OpenID digital identity project, said today that it has added support for OpenID 2.0. OpenID 2.0 is the latest version of a standard used for single sign-on and authentication of users across Internet web sites….”

~Kevin Fox

ComputerWorld UK Talks to JanRain About OpenID

OpenID Becomes Enterprising
ComputerWorld UK
By Glyn Moody

December 10, 2008

“Identity is a hot issue at the moment - just ask Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs. But supremely stupid security lapses aside, managing identity is a problem that everyone online has to face on a daily basis…”