“The OpenID Directory” launched


I think the time has come to think about promoting OpenID, making it more attractive for users and rising the pressure on site owners to implement this technology.

For that reason me and my team startet gathering links of blogs, wikis, online tools and social software that are already OpenID enabled. The results were published today at http://openiddirectory.com, a simple link site in a good old Yahoo tradition, brushed up with some Ajax.

I hope that finding everything OpenID enabled in one place and demonstrating how many sites are already using it, will make it easier to convince people of this new technology.

I´m looking forward to see this directory grow. By now we have registered almost 120 sites. For sure there are still a lot of sites out there we didn´t find. So please submit these links - it´s free, quick and easy. And please keep in mind: Only sites that USE OpenID, not only talk about it.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Also if you are the owner of one of the already listed sites and you are not satisfied with something like category or description, just drop me a mail.

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Written by:
Priyanka
Posted on:
March 5, 2007 at 9:12 am

Hello,

I wanted to know the number of sites that are OpenID enabled. I remember having read somewhere that there are around 1000s of them but when I visit OpenID Directory I can find only 144 sites. I am eager to know which is correct and which is the best place to keep knowing about the increasing number of OpenID enables sites.

Thank you

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Written by:
thuhn
Posted on:
March 5, 2007 at 10:45 pm

I´ve read about these numbers too, wondering if there´s really such a big difference.
At the moment we have about 2-8 submissions per day at “The OpenID Directory”. Some of them cannot be approved because of not or only partial working OpenID implementations.
I wanna get into talks with OpenID providers about giving us some kind of “ping” when a new OpenID consumer has successfully authentificated an OpenID. Even if the consumers will have to be improved manually anyway this would be a chance to get information from first hand and pool this information on a central directory.
So, please be patient and subscribe to the RSS-feed on The OpenID Directory - I think this is still the best way to keep on track with what´s coming up new ;-) .