ClaimID Joins Consortium Funding OpenID Development
July 26th, 2006 - Fred StutzmanClaimID proudly announces it has joined a consortium of ten forward-thinking companies to fund the development and adoption of OpenID. ClaimID utilizes OpenID, a standards-based identity protocol; it lets you do cool stuff like log into LiveJournal or Wikipedia (very soon!) with your claimID URL. Not only is that cool, it just makes sense - OpenID is decentralized, scalable, easy-to-use and it saves you from having to create new accounts at every site you log into.
Announced by JanRain CEO Scott Kveton at OSCON, the consortium’s first project is an OpenID code bounty. The consortium will offer $5,000 to ten open source projects that successfully implement OpenID. I know what you’re thinking - “$5,000 to implement OpenID - sign me up!” Well, there are a few conditions. Your project must be OSI licensed, and there must be either 5,000 downloads a month or 200,000 users of publicly installed instances. Software like Wordpress, phpBB, Drupal or Joomla are great examples - and you can suggest others. Not only will each of these projects be getting $5,000, but they will also be investing in the future of identity, and making it easier for people to use their projects. It is a win-win all around.
The consortium is made up of forward-thinking companies that share a goal to make identity better on the net. They are Verisign, JanRain, Cordance, ooTao, Opinity, Four Kitchen Studios, Zooomr, NetMesh, Sxip and claimID. We’re looking to expand our consortium, so if you’re interested in supporting this important cause, please contact us. The coordinating site, located at http://iwantmyOpenID.com, and bounty program were organized by the OpenID community.
We’re so happy to be able to take part in this very important goal. We feel that OpenID is great way to give people the identity solutions they need. With this bounty program and consortium, we hope that people will take this opportunity to collaborate, converse and compromise. We’re convinced we’ve made a great decision in supporting OpenID, its community and this consortium, and we look forward to the important progress this initiative will make.
July 26th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
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July 26th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
[...] This is our official announcement on the claimID blog: ClaimID proudly announces it has joined a consortium of ten forward-thinking companies to fund the development and adoption of OpenID. ClaimID utilizes OpenID, a standards-based identity protocol; it lets you do cool stuff like log into LiveJournal or Wikipedia (very soon!) with your claimID URL. Not only is that cool, it just makes sense - OpenID is decentralized, scalable, easy-to-use and it saves you from having to create new accounts at every site you log into. [...]
September 13th, 2006 at 2:07 am
[...] While bored today I remembered another service that I signed for but haven’t check up on in a while, ClaimID. When I got ClaimID I looked around at some other all-in-one online identity attempts, the other “big” one at the time wasOpenID. Turns out, during my latest 4-month schooling exile ClaimID got onboard to fund OpenID and they are now nicely integrated. [...]