Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0 316
An anonymous reader writes "Right on the heels of Microsoft's adoption of the OpenID protocol by announcing their intention to enable OpenID authentication against all Live IDs, Google has announced their intention to join the growing list of OpenID authentication providers. Except it turns out they're using their own version of OpenID that is incompatible with everyone else. It seems that Google will be using their own 'improved' version of OpenID (based upon research and user feedback of the OpenID system) which isn't backwards compatible with OpenID 1.0/2.0, in hopes of improving end-user experience at the cost of protocol compatibility and complexity."
Slightly Conflicting Vision Statements (Score:5, Funny)
OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.
Everyone else's vision statement:
Fuck OpenID, I'm in control now.
don't be evil (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And this is why... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:so lets see slashdot bias at work (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slightly Conflicting Vision Statements (Score:5, Funny)
EMBRACE AND EXTEND!!!!
oh...wait...I'm confused, this a Google article, not a microsoft article
Re:Google... learning more from Microsoft everyday (Score:4, Funny)
They drank Flavor Aid at Jonestown.
Re:Google... learning more from Microsoft everyday (Score:5, Funny)
Don't forget irrational thinking, -2i!
Re:Google... learning more from Microsoft everyday (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, no, it's happening again! (Score:2, Funny)
Where is Google's successor?
Re:How to judge what's going on (Score:5, Funny)
There is nothing similar in the 2.0 OpenId standard.
HAHA DISREGARD THAT, I DON'T READ STANDARDS
Re:Slightly Conflicting Vision Statements (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slightly Conflicting Vision Statements (Score:5, Funny)
Google:
1) write a good search engine
2) ???
3) grow to critical mass where you can guarantee yourself users
4) embrace
5) extend
6) release extensions to the community
7) get users based on 1-5 using the new system
8) advertise the hell out of everything to the users on this system, too
9) profit!
10) repeat steps 4 through 9
Microsoft:
1) write decent BASIC tools
2) ???
3) get someone else's OS preloaded by IBM and ride their coattails to ubiquity
4) embrace
5) extend
6) close off extensions
7) hook users through lock-in created in steps 3 through 6
8) extinguish open system
9) profit!
10) repeat steps 4 through 9
The '???' steps come a little early in these. Sorry about that.
Re: Google Version!! (Score:5, Funny)
Embrace, Beta, Languish!
Re:Google... learning more from Microsoft everyday (Score:1, Funny)
Don't forget irrational thinking, -2i!
I think you meant -2e.
What you posted was imaginary thinking :)
Re:Slightly Conflicting Vision Statements (Score:4, Funny)
It truly is a sign of the apocalypse.
Microsoft being "un-evil" and Google eviling it up.
Re:Snarky AC comment (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe you should know who you're talking to
He did say "Get over yourself", didn't he?
As the Great Bill O'Reilly Once Said... (Score:3, Funny)
Fork it! We'll do it live!