Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0
OpenID is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity, single sign-on, eliminating the need for a different user name and password for each site. Google joins the OpenID fray with its own solution, which lets developers integrate a universal log-in for their users to sign on with their Google account. Google will allow web services to join a limited test of an API based on the OpenID 2.0 protocol that will give Google Account users the option to sign in to websites with their Google credentials and without having to sign up for a new account at those sites
Google also announced that it is looking to combine the OAuth and OpenID protocol so that a service can not only request a user’s identity through OpenID, but also “request access to information available via OAuth-enabled APIs such as Google Data APIs as well as standard data formats such as Portable Contacts and OpenSocial REST APIs.”
Overall OpenID 2.0 looks like a worthwhile upgrade, even if some parts like i-names are questionable. Assuming the attribute exchange extension takes off, it should provide a much richer user experience
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