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A few days ago, we rolled out ID Selector at ClaimID. Designed by the wonderful folks at JanRain, ID Selector is a nifty technology that makes the OpenID sign-in process significantly easier. Here’s what it looks like:

The ID Selector makes it easy to recall your OpenID when you’re logging into a site, solving a plethora of problems that occur when OpenID’s proliferate.  We know this will make it easier for you to log in to OpenID, and we also hope that this will drive some more of that sweet OpenID-consuming that is required to push this movement forward.

If you’d like an ID Selector from your website, simply sign up with IDSelector.com.  Great work to Brian and Co. at JanRain!

The past year has been an exciting one for OpenID. Millions of OpenID’s have been created, thousands of sites support OpenID, and a growing ecosystem of fans, developers and advocates are proving that an open approach to identity makes sense. As the network of value around OpenID grows, our OpenID providers need to be trustworthy and secure. ClaimID has long been one of the most trusted OpenID providers on the net; while we offer banking-quality security, we felt it was time to take our product to the next level.

To do so, ClaimID will integrate Confident Technologies RecognitionAUTH system. The RecognitionAUTH system offers users an innovative and highly secure second factor in authentication. This enhancement will solve many of the criticisms of the OpenID security model, providing you with an account you can use with confidence going forward.

We’re excited to be working the the Confident/Vidoop team on this integration, particularly our friend and advocate Scott Kveton. In enhancing security, we hope ClaimID users will feel more comfortable, and more secure as they choose us as their identity provider. We hope to deploy RecognitionAUTH soon - so watch this space for more details.

We heard from Alex Kohlhofer (plasticshore) a couple days ago about Weewar adding MicroID support.  We checked it out and everything seems to work flawlessly.  Great work guys.

We’ve added weewar.com to our list of autoverified domains (aka Known MicroID Publishers) and hope to continue seeing that list grow!

For completeness… Alex’s Weewar profile

Some great news from Micah Laaker of MyBlogLog - they’re now supporting MicroID’s on their profile pages.  If you’re a MBL user, you can now claim your page to ClaimID or any other service that supports MicroID.  Awesome!