OpenID

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:

Do you Stumble? Do you like OpenID? Do you love this cheesy, anaphoric introduction?

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 bounty headquarters.

I’ll also be personally travelling to Wikimania 2006 to distribute more handouts and answer questions about OpenID’s future in MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia.

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.