Creators of OpenID?

I am German, but I am blogging in English. Though my English could be much better and I am probably using wrong terms every once in a while; I am well aware of this. But did I really give the impression I was one of the creators of OpenID? Sure, I blog about it and helped launching Spread OpenID but does this make me a creator of it? Well, VNUNET – a company running multiple technology websites – thinks so:

This will prevent phishing, according to the author and one of the creators of OpenID Carsten Potter.
“To prevent users from phishing … users choose some text, an image or colour which they will see each time they sign in to Yahoo! If they don’t see it they are on a phishing site. Other providers offer similar features but Yahoo!’s seems to be really well done,” wrote Potter.

Well, while this is basically a good laugh (but also quite embarrassing), the VNUNET article should mention and quote people who are far more involved with OpenID than I am: Brad Fitzpatrick, anyone of the OpenID Foundation, representatives of JanRain, Simon Willison, a Yahoo! developer maybe,… Not me, though!

I will send an email or comment to VNUNET. The info has to be corrected. I made a screenshot of the article, though. Whenever I need to laugh I will have a look at it.

Oh yeah, Google’s Blogger has become an OpenID provider as well. This seems to be real news, though.