AOL Embraces OpenID
February 15th, 2007 - Fred StutzmanSome very exciting news from AOL – they have enabled all of their AOL accounts with OpenID. That means that all AOL subscribers and AIM users – over 63 million at my count – now have working OpenIDs. This is a huge, exciting move.
Oh yeah, if you want to test your AOL OpenIDs, you can leave a comment on the blog – we recently enabled OpenID commenting. (Yeah, yeah, we know we were late to the party on that.)
February 15th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Testing OpenID login…
February 15th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
100 million, here we come…
February 15th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
That’s a pretty quick zero to sixty time for OpenID…
February 15th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Testing with my AIM screen name.
Really great news.
February 15th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Really great news. Testing with my AIM screen name.
Carsten
February 15th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
[...] the form of openid.aol.com/screenname. Admittedly, that’s a great step by the AOL folks. As Fred Stutzman points out that’s more than 63 million new OpenID users. Excellent! aim, aol, openidShare [...]
February 16th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Don’t mind me, I’m just testing whether AOL’s implementation works with AIM accounts as well as regular AOL accounts.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:02 am
testing
February 16th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Just testing
February 16th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Testing Tester
February 16th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Great news. I suppose it’s only a matter of time before Microsoft passports start working as well (given Microsofts recent love for OpenID). We can use Yahoo with idproxy (although native support would be nice as well). Does anyone know how Google feels about OpenID?
February 16th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Great news, nice one AOL!
February 16th, 2007 at 9:34 am
I’m not AOL, but I thought I’d try my .name out instead.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Fred,
Thanks for the info. Note that I experienced an odd thing that upon initial use of my AIM OpenID I was never shown the Grant/Deny page:
http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2007/02/aol_openid_63_m.html
On subsequent logins I *was* shown that page, but not on the initial login. Has anyone else experienced this? It’s not entirely clear to me that this *is* a security issue… but I thought I’d flag it.
Thanks again for the info,
Dan York
February 16th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
AOL Supports OpenID, Enables Over 63 Million Accounts…
Managing the login credentials for every web site or service you sign up for tends to be a daunting task. Remember your username is somewhatfrank on service A ,franky-baby on service B and frankyhollywood on service C can be somewhat…
February 16th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Test
February 16th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
OpenID!
February 18th, 2007 at 2:15 am
I’m surprised AOL of all companies would do this, but that’s a great step forward.
February 19th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Yay! Now I have yet another oID.
AOL’s doing their best to get people to love them again (:
February 19th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Very cool news. Now I just have to get my head around this!
February 21st, 2007 at 4:57 am
Checking
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:59 am
yeah baby … this is nice! so nice!
March 5th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
OK.. What will happen to i-names ? Are there any white papers on how i-names and openids are supposed to co-exist ?
Also with i-name, they are domain-independent. With OpenID, there is domain dependency. Depending on where i get the openid, I get that URL — I thought the whole idea was to get an independent ID…
April 26th, 2007 at 5:33 am
I have used my ID from myOpenId.com – just wanted to try out the AOL one. Looks like they’re not supporting any of the profile info yet.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Just testing the AOL ID.