Providence Nightlife is a user-generated business reviews site that wanted to gather full profile data from its users while increasing registration rates. Since deploying RPX, Providence Nightlife has benefitted from a 50% increase in registrations, 80% of which are through a third party identity with RPX, and a 1000% increase in profile picture uploads, helping Providence Nightlife build a rich user profile and draw more users to its website.

As an online classified advertisement website, Sulit wanted to increase its member base and improve the user experience, while maintaining focus on the core of its business. Since implementing RPX, Sulit has seen more than a 50% decrease in support tickets from users asking for username/password recovery, and 15% of users now sign-in to the site using a third party account.

37signals has developed web-based applications that are used by over 1 million people and businesses. OpenID offered a quick and easy way to allow single sign-on across each of its products. Deployment of OpenID has allowed 37signals to further demonstrate its ongoing commitment to innovation and ease of use.

Leading rock band AFI needed a simple method to allow fans to register to submit personal videos for its Begin Transmission online contest. Within two weeks, AFI had received 850 submissions, over 12,500 user registrations, 10,000 comments and 100,000 votes on the contest website. RPX integration took less than an hour and not a single customer support inquiry was received throughout the contest.

Get Satisfaction provides real-time, dynamic customer support content that leverages the wisdom of crowds. Its important to make it as easy as possible for our clients’ customers to interact with our platform. OpenID reduces the barriers to registration and login to our hosted service, allowing customers to provide thoughful, timely feedback to our clients.

As a social news and content aggregator, one of Mixx’s objectives was to grow audience, and OpenID login and registration played a key part in that. Since Mixx partners with a number of large media publishers they kept hearing the same request – “we want our users to have single sign-on with Mixx”. The support for OpenID has been a critical first step in reaching this goal and enhancing the partner relationships.

As the only map-based real estate search on the Internet, PropertyMaps had two key objectives: to make it easier for prospective customers to register on its website and to make return visit login faster and easier. By accepting OpenID as a login method, PropertyMaps has significantly improved the user’s experience and realized a significant increase in registrations.

Embracing OpenID for the Rails Rumble was really a no-brainer for us as event oganizers; we needed to make sure it was easy for users to establish a single account with us that would be used for judging applications, and at the same time lower the barrier for users logging into the client applications that contestants were buiding. Having to sign up for multiple accounts to evaluate and judge different websites would make the process unpalatable to even the most interested users.

As the global technology community’s hub for information exchange and open source software distribution and services, SourceForge appreciated the user-centric, open architecture platform approach of OpenID. A key goal was to improve the user experience and give the members easier ways to register and login using identities that they already had from AOL, Yahoo, Google, and others. In the first four months since launching OpenID, SourceForge has seen OpenID logins grow to over 10% of total logins.

Stack Overflow, a collaboratively edited question and answer community for programmers, required simplicity and speed on its website. Rather than write an entire authentication system and store user passwords, they supported OpenID for a quick and easy login process. Within several weeks since launch, all of Stack Overflow’s registered site users, about 10,000 so far, were logging in via OpenID.