Freeyourid.Com Launches World's First Personalized OpenID Service
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FreeyourID.com launches the first fully personalized, portable OpenID  solution for the mass market, in partnership with Global Name Registry,  JanRain and Key Systems, signing up more than 4000 users after just four  days of operation.
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A new standard aims to help users pass information between Web services without sharing full access to their identities.
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Company launches free test version of service that fosters popular Internet activity.
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Dave Dash has posted a quick script to help with an integration of openID into your application - well, really just to read the response back easily.   I'm working on implementing openID for reviewsby.us and for use in symfony apps. One thing I was having trouble with was parsing key value pairs, which is one of the requirements to reading responses. It's a fairly easy task, but [PHP][] offers so many ways to do this.   He notes the spec for how the results are returned and shares his code (based around a regular expression) that goes through the response and separates things out into key/value pairs automatically.
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FreeiPods.com is a service that offers users free iPod music players if they sign up for promotions and refer users to the services.
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Open-source enterprise software developer OpenLogic wants open-source users to stand up and be counted in a worldwide census-- and is offering a new software tool to help the process.
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IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign, and Yahoo have joined the OpenID Foundation board.
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Yahoo is moving in a big way to embrace the new OpenID 2.0 specification, which eliminates the need for Web surfers to create separate IDs and logins at each of the Web sites, blogs and profile pages that they may visit during an online session.
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It sounded like a dream come true for someone with dozens of e-mail and social-networking accounts: A free Web service called Fuser that lets you check all of your messages from one central location.
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People who sign up for OpenDNSâs service are offered an easier way to find Web pages and greater online protection from malicious sites.
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Five large vendors have joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group's efforts to simplify the process of signing into Web sites.
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Microsoft will support the OpenID standard, Bill Gates and Craig Mundie said today at RSA.
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Yahoo user names and passwords will be used to access Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, starting January 30.
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Continuing on with his look at his OpenID library and its implementation, Padraic Brady has two new posts with more of the story.   From the first post:   As a follow on from my previous entry about OpenID in the Zend Framework, I've been in brief contact with Dmitry Stogov across a scattering of emails. Dmitry posted his OpenID proposal for the framework over at the Proposals Wiki earlier in the week. [...] It's actually very hard to comment constructively rather than simply handing over my code which probably says a lot more all by itself. [...] Anyway, I've agreed to port my OpenID library to PEAR as a PHP5 package. I checked with the mailing list, and the approach I've taken in splitting the library across a number of freestanding components hasn't seen any objections. On the flipside, it does help by providing upgrades to existing PEAR Encryption packages which are not yet migrated to PHP5 versions.   And from post number two:   Over the weekend, I managed to grab a few hours to dig around my OpenID library with the ultimate development tools: patience and experimentation. [...] What I've refactored towards is a splitting of the OpenID process based on three categories: Request, Redirect, Response.
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Yahoo on Monday implemented its own sender authentication scheme, dubbed DomainKeys, for its free Web-based mail service. DomainKeys is one of several authentication technologies that hope to put a stop to
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The British firm Openads is offering website operators an alternative to giant online ad firms accused of imperiling privacy by amassing data about people&#39;s Internet activities.
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Wez Furlong, a proponent of the OpenID authentication system, has posted a new tutorial of sorts that details a script for communication between your application and the OpenID servers.   I have a patch (php-openid.diff, for PHP 5, might also apply to PHP 4) for the openssl extension that makes it easier to build OpenID and TypeKey authentication support into your PHP apps. I don't have a canned solution for you to deploy, but I can give you some pointers on how to use these bits. I'm assuming that you know a bit about how OpenID works.    It's broken up into three sections - a look at associating with an OpenID server, performing the actual authentication (including the code for the page they're redirected back to), and an example of using the same functionality to interface with TypeKey.