Open Web Foundation
The Open Web Foundation is an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies.

Cutting back on your long list of passwords
The most visible examples come from Plaxo, Facebook, Yahoo! and Google using a technique the industry calls hybrid onboarding.

Hybrid Onboarding Guide (Google OAuth & Federated Login Research)
"the term "hybrid onboarding" refers to a technique that is used to improve the user registration rate on a website by leveraging a number of Internet standards including OpenID, OAuth and Portable Contacts. This combination has been used...

Hybrid Onboarding
Do you operate a website and wish you could increase the percentage of users who finish the registration process? As discussed on Google's main blog, Google has been working with Plaxo and Facebook to improve the registration success rate for Gmail...

OAuth Enhancements
Google has recently added three important enhancements to our OAuth support:The ability to use OAuth without registrationSupport for software apps installed on a computer or mobile phoneAdditional controls for our Google Apps Premier and Education...

Kantara Initiative: Shaping the Future of Global Identity
"Kantara Initiative: Bridging and harmonizing the identity community with actions that will help ensure secure, identity-based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information so that networks will become privacy protecting and...