Comments on: MySpace confirms OpenID support

Social network, which is also unveiling its Data Availability program in a phased launch, wants to be the hub of identity.

[jamalystic]

This is a great move by myspace and hope others follow suit. The users have to be in charge of their data and should always be free to trnsport them where ever and when ever possible. I belive this will open a new frontier for the internet: Data Portability: The Next Great Frontier for the Web (http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=542&doc_id=145677&F_src=flftwo)

[t26l]

Can you imagine an Internet where everybody issues email addresses but also recognizes only their own? Like you need an @aol.com address to write to people served by AOL? That's what companies like myspace and yahoo are doing with openid. They issue open ids and they expect others to accept them, but they accept only their own. So this is fake acceptance, this is a land grab and an attempt to fragment the internet. Yes they make excuses for it, but the fact is if you don't accept openid you are breaking the system, you still force people to have multiple ids. The underlying motive is that if people are forced onto myspace to connect with their friends, myspace doesn't have to compete on features with other companies. This should not stand, people who believe in an open Internet should boycott these companies and speak out. It is time for the government to enforce interoperability, as it did with the phone companies in the heyday. One alternative is Plaxo, which accepts openids and has made some progress in synching with other web services. I recommend people check it out or recommend other true openid supporting social networks.

[freemarket--2008]

Sure, let's run to the gubment every time we don't like something. Sheesh!

[prabath_siriwardena]

It's great to here MySpace's annoucement to support OpenID and this is the first social networking site to do so. We hope facebook will also follow this effort.

Thanks.

Prabath
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