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"In case you had any doubts about it, OpenID has definitely proving to be the de facto standard for web identity. Many big names, including Google (through their Blogger service) and Yahoo announced their support for the standard, and now five big companies join OpenID Foundation's corporate board: Google, IBM, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo. \nThe foundation is not open only for huge corporations; basically, anyone can join - for a small fee. Students will have to pay their membership $50 per year, individuals will have to cough up $100, while companies have to pay various fees depending on their size. \n\"With this support from the new company board members, the OpenID Foundation will be able to continue to promote and protect the technology and its community moving forward,\" said Bill Washburn, Executive Director, OpenID Foundation. He's right: support from these five heavyweights means that pretty much every site with a login will support OpenID in a year or two."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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