OpenID has officially been added to The List. Y'know, The List. The official list of things the kool kidz all mindlessly slag. Nokia, XML, W3C.

The proclamations go out far and wide that OpenID is a failure and OAuth is a resounding success. It is true that OAuth has found much wider adoption on the internet than OpenID, but there are a few reasons for that, which are more social and economic than technical.

OAuth is designed to simply provide authorization to third-parties to use another's ID system. It was implemented to replace the "password anti-pattern" of providing ...