Simon Wilson points out that MySpace is announcing OpenID support. Reading these posts one could easily come to the conclusion that there are now 500 million people using OpenId, as opposed to a much smaller number of technology adopters.
I wonder. Has anyone made an attempt to estimate the number of people using OpenID? I would be very curious to see the estimates.
Although definitely a win for OpenID, it still doesn’t help where the shortfall really is, and that is in meaningful OpenID enabled relying parties. It’s telling to note that MySpace is not (unless I missed it) promising to let users log in to MySpace using OpenID.
You can’t build a highway with nothing but on ramps.
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Slaying the Straw Men « Identity Blogger // July 30, 2008 at 12:39 pm |
[...] July 30, 2008 · No Comments I have a lot of respect for Johannes Ernst. He has done a lot of great work in identity and even though we disagree on many things about OpenID, I always like hearing what he has to say. That said he has drafted quite a platoon of straw man arguments to fight, and one of them looks remarkably like me: [...]