Creators of OpenID?

January 18, 2008 in Google, OpenID by Carsten Pötter | 7 comments

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. ;)

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  1. Pfefferle’s avatar

    Pfefferle on January 18, 2008 at 20:29

    I didn’t know that you are that famous Mr. Potter :)

  2. Thomas H.’s avatar

    Thomas H. on January 19, 2008 at 10:38

    LOL!

  3. Carsten Pötter’s avatar

    Carsten Pötter on January 19, 2008 at 13:33

    Yeah, I am famous. Ha, ha. ;)
    I think what went wrong is the author had a look at Planet OpenID where my OpenID related posts are syndicated as well, and thought all posts appearing there were by OpenID developers, Foundation members, et al.

    I commented on the article but the comment is not published yet, and also sent an email to the author. Also no reaction yet, and the article is still not modified.

  4. Thomas H.’s avatar

    Thomas H. on January 19, 2008 at 14:12

    Tell us, what he answered.

    On par with the Microsoft Tech Support call story this week on ./
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/16/1558247

  5. Dawn Poetter’s avatar

    Dawn Poetter on January 21, 2008 at 04:44

    hmm Just writing because I am a Poetter too from The US. have no clue what you all are talking about…. :-)

  6. Carsten Pötter’s avatar

    Carsten Pötter on January 21, 2008 at 07:10

    Hi Dawn!
    It’s just some tech talk here. Not really important. ;)