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6th July 2009 - Link Blog

Evidence of OpenID at Amazon. It looks like Amazon are using OpenID for SSO between their different properties—I clicked a link to sign in to AWS and the URL had OpenID query string parameters.

Posted 6th July 2009 at 1:25 am

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