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16th August 2007 - Link Blog

Grab them eyeballs! Any cred at all! Excellent argument for why large OpenID consumers shouldn’t be worried that other large providers will turn evil and hold their users hostage. What counts is the account, not the credential.

Posted 16th August 2007 at 9:16 pm

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