Social networking website MySpace has joined the OpenID alliance, which will allow MySpace users to access other websites using their unique MySpace OpenID.

Like NetIDme, MySpace is currently termed as an OpenID ‘provider’, which means that users from other websites won’t be able to access MySpace using another OpenID login. However, MySpace may join as an OpenID ‘consumer’ in the future. This would allow web users who have an OpenID from another source, such as NetIDme, to login to Myspace using their OpenID credentials, rather than their Myspace username and password.

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With the OpenID Foundation gaining “impressive backers” such as “Google, IBM Corp, Microsoft, VeriSign Inc and Yahoo” , there has been talk of OpenID venturing into the mobile phone market.

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NetIDme has produced a short video to coincide with the 5th European Safer Internet Day. The video contains advice for parents worried about their children’s internet use. The video can be viewed on the ChatShield website

Safer Internet Day is taking place on 12 February 2008 with participants from almost 40 countries across the world. Safer Internet Day is a yearly event, organised by Insafe, the European internet safety network. There are a number of activities planned for the day with the aim of celebrating safer internet use and raising awareness of the online risks that the web can pose to children. In the UK, school children will be taking part by participating in the 2008 Blogathon along with 50 other countries.

The blogathon will be launched by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, and will progress from New Zealand through Australia to Thailand and Korea then through the Middle East, Europe and South America and will end in USA and Canada. This year’s theme is ‘Life online is what YOU make of it’ and in the week following the blogathon, internet users can put questions to bloggers.

“Google, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined the board of the OpenID Foundation”

This action being seen as the first steps of allowing OpenID being used as the main login to major web sites.

Netidme is a supporter of OpenID.

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It has been claimed that by the end of February, the Telegraph newspaper (telegraph.co.uk) “will become the first newspaper in the world to provide OpenID to its readers.”

Netidme is also a supporter of the OpenID system.

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There was an announcement from Yahoo late last week that they are fully supporting OpenID 2.0 as the “standard for a universal log-in”.

Netidme is also a supporter of the OpenID system.

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It is rumoured that Google, IBM and Verisign are set to offer its support to OpenID. This would widely increase OpenID’s popularity across the Wide World Web.

This form of internet security is already supported by NetIDme.

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The Openid system is now available in version 2.0. This system is quickly becoming one of the most preferred options of user login security available on the internet.

Netidme is one of its many supporters. Click here for the full article

NetIDme have released a free whitepaper titled; Instant Messaging: The Business Opportunities.
The free whitepaper can be downloaded here.