varalu 0 Report post Posted December 21, 2007 OpenID is used to sign into one account (Online) and use all services online rather than having seperate accounts in various services. Those who use LiveJournal (Blogging platform), must be aware of this as they introduced this. This is being adopted by many online service providers...In few years, it will be enough to remember only one ID and can be used across all providers... More info in the below link... http://openid.net/ Also, few days back (last week) Blogger also started to support OpenID. So, you need not have a blogger account to add comments etc in blogger or any other domain. Some of the openID providers as of now (This may/will increase in future as many vendors are supporting openID) AOL LIVEJOURNAL ORANGE etc. For more generic information visit the wiki page below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID Summary OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system. Using OpenID-enabled sites, web users do not need to remember traditional authentication tokens such as username and password. Instead, they only need to be previously registered on a website with an OpenID "identity provider" (IdP). Since OpenID is decentralized, any website can employ OpenID software as a way for users to sign in; OpenID solves the problem without relying on any centralized website to confirm digital identity. OpenID is increasingly gaining adoption among large sites, with organizations like AOL and Orange acting as a provider. In addition, integrated OpenID support has been made a high priority in Firefox 3 and OpenID can be used with Windows CardSpace, which is part of .NET Framework version 3.0 (the .NET Framework version 3.0 comes with Windows Vista by default and can be downloaded for Windows XP). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
demonoider 0 Report post Posted December 21, 2007 (edited) i reckopn this is a really good idea. it sure saves having to use usernames and passwords Edited December 21, 2007 by demonoider (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mahirharoon 0 Report post Posted December 22, 2007 but other users can steal the open id very easily.drupal adds open id in 6.0 so websites using it will have the thiefs get on admin's account.and wordpress tooo with openid plugin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ironchicken 0 Report post Posted February 5, 2008 I heard that Yahoo was going to implement OpenID, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone else can post here, if they know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
