AOL and 63 Million OpenIDs (from dev.aol.com)

Yesterday, I blogged about AOL's work-in-progress on OpenID. It generated a lot of positive commentary. I realized after reading the reactions that I buried the lead: There are now 63 million AOL/AIM OpenIDs. Anyone can get one by signing up for a free AIM account. This is cool.

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Tags: OpenID, identity, social software, user centric identity

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#2 Comment from panzerjohnEntry Author
2/18/07 8:16 PM | Permalink

I'm actually just going by external calculations, not internal data, but the 63 million only includes accounts that are "active" in some way -- AOL accounts which are actively used and/or AIM accounts which have logged in at some point over some time period. Vague, I know, but it definitely rules out the millions of "abandoned" accounts which haven't been used in years -- I think adding those in would bring the total above 100M I think. All of this is off the top of my head.
#1 Comment from jgfaughnan
2/18/07 3:35 PM | Permalink

I wonder how many of those 63 million are live accounts. I once had an AOL username of jfaughnan, and I find there's an OpenID for it. I suspect that's my old AOL account ... it now a zombie OID. AOL may need a way to clear those out.

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