It's a shame that this is where identity is going. Google had such a great opportunity to do this in an open way by making this a more extensible format...perha

It's a shame that this is where identity is going. Google had such a great opportunity to do this in an open way by making this a more extensible format...perhaps by dusting off OpenID. Identity is probably the most under-built part of the web, and anything Google could do to positively move that forward would've been hailed as a huge improvement. Instead, because it's closed, it'll set the web identity conversation backward...hopefully it doesn't set it back too far.