the4thdimension writes
"MySpace has joined a coalition
of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't
familiar with the OpenID coalition, they are a group that seeks to
allow users to create a single account/password set to be used on a
number of services. Such services already signed up include: Google's
Blogger, Wordpress, AOL, Yahoo, Vox, LiveJournal, and others. "
Reader gbjbaanb adds a link to
the BBC's coverage
and points out that MySpace's 100 million users would mean nearly a
doubling of the approximately 120 million OpenID accounts now in use,
writing:
"Initially support is to use MySpace OpenIDs as providers
only — i.e. you cannot logon to MySpace with an OpenID created
elsewhere, but that policy will change in the future. This should help
to make OpenID the de-facto login mechanism for the Internet, now if
only Microsoft would support it, there are plenty OSS OpenID libraries available."