OpenID? Do You Use It?
by Steven Rossi on May 4, 2008 in On the Web
I’ve been looking at information about OpenID lately and I’ve been quite intrigued. For those who don’t know, OpenID is an open-source solution to creating a single online identity to avoid creating infinite user accounts on every website on the Internet. The premise is genius as the technology is not being developed or held by one single company, but rather a team/organization is devoted to keeping the software free and open, allowing it to be secure. I recently signed up for an OpenID using OpenID for Google Accounts, using a new Google account that I created for this purpose. I suppose I could have used my existing Gmail account, but I preferred to keep my personal email separate from my online identity. I haven’t used my OpenID all that much as of yet aside from commenting on a few blogs, but I can foresee it coming in handy soon. After all, an awful lot of sites are beginning to implement functionality for this service. Any thoughts?