Social Networking giant, MySpace has announced that they will be supporting OpenID to allow their users to take their identities to other OpenID supporting sites. For those who don’t know about OpenID, it’s a shared identity service which enables internet users to use the same digital identity across various other internet services. OpenID is free and decentralized, and will eliminate the necessity to use different usernames and passwords across various websites.
MySpace will only be a “provider”, which means users can use their MySpace account to log into other services which accept OpenID logins (”relying” website). For example, Yahoo is also an OpenID provider, but MySpace users can’t log into Yahoo using their MySpace account. Senior VP for Technology, Jim Benedetto says that he is not against the idea of letting users log into MySpace using OpenIDs from other providers, which would make MySpace as a relying party.
When the project is implemented, every MySpace will get OpenID by default. Unless the use their OpenID somewhere else, they won’t notice any change.
MySpace has also announced two implementations of their data availability concept. As per the implementation, MySpace profile data can be seamlessly imported to user accounts in Eventful and Flixter.
Both these announcements prove that MySpace wants to be recognized as an identity hug. Good to see major players like MySpace join the Open Identity platform.
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wrote, on July 23rd, 2008
Thats a great news.. Hope everything goes openID..
Thanks.
wrote, on July 23rd, 2008
That is a pretty radical move. If Bebo and Facebook joined in there would be huge, awesome potential.
wrote, on July 23rd, 2008
Indeed it is. MySpace has lost loads of ground to facebook, and adopting services like this is an attempt to claim back their audience.
wrote, on July 23rd, 2008
Yes, this is a very welcome move and one that should speed up others to embrace it too.
wrote, on July 23rd, 2008
How are you feeling now after your rest and recovery? Are you fully back to normal?
wrote, on July 23rd, 2008
The news is really great. MySpace is working good for his users
wrote, on July 23rd, 2008
Though I don’t use Myspace, this might encourage me to join because of the OpenIdD. Things are made a but easier with the OpenID, so I am glad it is becoming more recognized.
wrote, on July 24th, 2008
GOOD PROGRAM!
wrote, on July 26th, 2008
Open ID is the best feature of all..By the way, if not mistaken, Google Blogger is the first to adopt this feature?
wrote, on August 28th, 2008
Open Id is the wave of the future. I am holding off on joining this until I am absolutely sure this is a good thing, or another system of control.