In a notice released late Wednesday, eBay said members will have to sign in through eBay directly starting in late January.
Xoc
4:39 am on Dec 31, 2004 (gmt 0)
I would say that Passport is essentially dead. At best it will be offered as one alternative to authenticate users, with a webform login, but eBay is cancelling that. There is a real problem with having too many identities and passwords, but Passport has too many problems, both technically and politically to succeed.
moltar
4:49 am on Dec 31, 2004 (gmt 0)
A little bit off topic.
Are there real world alternatives to that?
What was wrong about Passport? (I never used it myself, except for MSN).
martinibuster
5:01 am on Dec 31, 2004 (gmt 0)
I think the more important news here is that Microsoft has given up on Passport when it said that it will stop marketing it, according to the CBS MarketWatch [marketwatch.com] and the LA Times.
s1dev
6:06 am on Jan 10, 2005 (gmt 0)
I didn't use it much, it sounded a little fishy to me as a user. From my understanding, I wasn't too comfortable with MS being involved in any way with my access to other sites. Maybe my understanding of it was wrong, but I thought it'd put MS in a too powerful position if site authentication was done via passport....
