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Mixi Brings Sophisticated OpenID to Millions of Japanese Users

Posted from ReadWriteWeb 101 days ago
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Mixi, the giant Japanese social network, announced last week that it is now acting as an OpenID provider. The implementation is particularly sophisticated, Six Apart's David Recordon says they are the first major provider to support the exchange of user profile data via OpenID. The service is also providing a mechanism for users of 3rd party sites to limit access to content elsewhere to visitors who are their friends on Mixi. All of it begs the question - where's Facebook with OpenID and why do we need the proprietary framework of Facebook Connect when Mixi is doing many of the same things ... (original story)