TechCrunch is reporting that Digg founder, Kevin Rose, just announced at the Future Of Web Apps conference that they will be supporting OpenID later this year. This is big news for the decentralized online identity system, which has been gaining a lot of momentum lately after the recent news that AOL and Microsoft would be adopting the online identity platform themselves.

The news that Microsoft was supporting OpenID was big enough, as they wouldn’t be the most likely supporters, considering this is something they failed to do with their Passport system. Now with the support of Digg, a driving force in the Web 2.0 movement, it looks like OpenID may become the digital identity standard that Microsoft’s Passport Network failed to be, for it lacked the decentralized nature that OpenID is founded on.

(via TechCrunch)

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