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This sounds like a great opportunity for a startup to create and capitalize on

it's kinda been tried by proxy through authentication standards like OpenID.

i wonder if the solution isn't to back off a little though. that is, standardize some process instead of (de?)centralizing authentication. something that gives developers more control, and users more familiarity, than OpenID.

open ID moves the user away from your service, which i think is not what some sites want because they want more user info and control. that's why openid failed.

agreed. tried to articulate that in my post! thanks :)

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