AOL and 63 Million OpenIDs
To address Paul's concern in Please delete my aol OpenID: We definitely want the user to be in control of their online presence. At the moment, the OpenID URL at openid.aol.com redirects you off to an AIM Profile. That's not necessarily the long term experience, though I think it should be one of the default options. George Fletcher has pointed out that it would be even better if we could redirect people off to whatever page they wanted, as long as they could verify that they owned the page. My take is, if you don't actually use the OpenID URL, it doesn't really exist. The same way a Wiki page doesn't exist until you edit it. On the other hand, having people go in and kick the tires to uncover issues is exactly why we're talking about this. So let us know what you think. Another important point is that you can point at the AOL OpenID service from any web page you own in order to turn its URL into an OpenID. The minimal requirements are basically that you have some AOL or AIM account, and that you add a couple of links to your document's HEAD: <link rel="openid.server" href="https://api.screenname.aol.com/auth/openidServer" > We added this to our blogs product in a few minutes minutes and it's in beta now. You can also support YADIS discovery which gives additional capabilities. See Sam Ruby's OpenID for non SuperUsers for a good summary. The detailed status from yesterday's post:
(I should clarify that I really work in the social networking / community / profile / blogging groups at AOL rather than the identity group per se. You can look to see what I actually do on a day to day basis over at my personal blog.) Tags: OpenID, identity, social software, user centric identity [1] (Update): The 63 million figure comes from Wikipedia's AIM Entry as of May 2006. Try help.aol.comSubmitted by devnetamy on November 5, 2007 - 3:14pm.
Mannsgmann - Try help.aol.com. That is the best place to get help with the AOL software and to determine what might be going on when you're adding screennames. Receiving an error from AOL openid providerSubmitted by rajanbhatt on October 5, 2007 - 7:18pm.
I am using php library http://www.openidenabled.com/php-openid 1.2.3 Any help/suggestion is appreciated. Thanks Rajan mmmm... strange but mostSubmitted by frida on August 23, 2007 - 6:45am.
mmmm... strange but most articles about AOL i came across were about its declining popularity. But i don't use it much by myself to charge( ------------------------------------ I'm not really sure whatSubmitted by mikebianc on July 7, 2007 - 8:55am.
I'm not really sure what you're asking, but I'll try to answer anyway, as I am also quite tired. First, you can't use an OpenID to log into an AOL account just yet. If you want to test it out, goto http://www.openidenabled.com/ and type in "http://openid.aol.com/lookin4mojo" as username (no password - that will be asked by AOL). I think all of this was mentioned in the initial post. The idea behind openId is that you choose one URL-style username to identify yourself across the internet. If everyone accepted openId logins, then you wouldn't be in password hell every time a site made you change your password to 26 characters with at least 4 caps and 3 symbols and a smack on the ass to boot! My current aol username-Submitted by lookin4mojo on April 1, 2007 - 9:26am.
I'm very tired so this contributes to what may seem to be lazy questions searching for lazier answers. So be it. This has become, however, my first "favorite site" in my very long history with AOL...so, I wanna grab on to it quikly and properly.---Lookin4mojo@aol.com is my email.I'm curious...may I use this as my ID? If so, how do I write it out as a whole to comply with your site? |
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adding screen name
every time i try to add a screen name I come up with a blank screen that at the bottom left conor says done. I can not add any additional names there are only two names at this time on this account and according to your information I can have seven.