In times when Google annouces its Open Social approach to integrate standarised interfaces to combine social networks (except Facebook!) it is time to write about the open source project OpenID. This service is a decentralised system to identify on several webapplications with your registration data and provides you one single digital identiy. In other words it is a system that saves your data so that you don’t need to register again and again at several webservices.
This so called Identity 2.0 issue should be necessarily considered when comes to how to handle all the rising web2.0 application your are registered at.
OpenID has been invented by Brad Fitzgerald founder of LiveJournal. But although it has been acquired by SixApart it still count as an open spource project. And it striving as you can see that many Web companies like AOL, Verisign, Microsoft, Digg, the Firefox Foundation and many others sustain the service and will help the identity service to become the leading standard.
But how does it realy work? I found a very informing video on go2web2 blog which completely explains how OpdenID works. Have a look at it:
Seeing the video OpenID sounds very useful and also safe to me. But the fact that I don’t know anyone who uses it combined with the fact that I have to allow many webservices to use my registered data. But if I can´t handle all my logins anymore I m sure I will switch to the service just out of the distress.
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 11:42 am and is filed under Networking, Hearts.
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