Virgilio / Alice (European Internet access provider), trademarks/subsidiaries of « Telecom Italia », the largest Italian telephone company, now a private company, it was founded in 1994 by the merger of several state-owned telecommunications companies, the most important of which was SIP, the monopoly telephone operator, start the adoption of OpenID directly on his portal: http://openid.alice.it/ and propose an OpenID Provider. After Orange in France, Telecom italia (Alice) become the 2nd TELCO in Europe to adopt OpenID.

More information (in Italian) here: Virgilio.it diventa provider per OpenID

On Tuesday of this week, popular social networking site MySpace announced support for OpenID and integration with their Data Availability initiative.

MySpace is launching as an OpenID provider to begin with bringing the grand total of OpenID enabled users on the Internet to well over 500 million users.

What’s interesting to note about this announcement as well is that MySpace is now layering additional, value-added services on top of the OpenID that make it even more compelling. This is an exciting time for OpenID and its clear the momentum is only just starting to pick up.

The Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe that borders Russia. The Capital of Belarus is Minsk and the population is about 10 million.

Welcome to Alexei Krivolap newly appointed Belarus Representative of the OpenID Europe Foundation.

Alexei Krivolap (1976) 31 years old from Minsk. Alexei graduated form Belarusian State University Department of Philosophy and Economic (http://www.bsu.by/). Now I am work as lecture in European Humanities University (http://www.ehu.lt), which was closed in Minsk (in 2004) and re-opened in Vilnius. Alexei is co-founder by Vilnius Media Seminar (http://www.VilniusMediaSeminar.org/) Open research seminar of media culture in Belarus and Lithuania. And founder Internet research centre for Internet studies in Belarus (http://www.probelnet.com/).

The OpenID Europe Team follow growing up and it is still possible to become member only for the following countries:

• Albania
• Belgium
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Croatia
• Iceland
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia
• Malta
• Moldavia
• Montenegro
• Norway
• Ukraine
• Slovakia