Do you hate having to remember 50 (or 150) different user ids and passwords for all the different websites you go to? Do you hate that all these different websites, with their different privacy policies, have all this data on you? Well, folks in the Identity Commons are working on user-centric identity to solve these problems, and more. Open ID is one-such solution, and I started experimenting with it yesterday (the other day now that it’s taken me a while to get this posted.
I went to myopenid.com and signed up for tedernst.myopenid.com to be my openid. Since that’s a bit ugly, I decided to see if I could use tedernst.com instead. This page shows how to do that. So now, when I go to livejournal, or wikitravel, I just tell them I’m tedernst.com and don’t have to give any other info. Their software goes to tedernst.com to see if I’m me, and tedernst.com tells it to look at tedernst.myopenid.com. Tedernst.myopenid.com then either knows I’m me because I’m already logged in there on this computer or if asks me for my password (wikitravel never sees my password), and tells wikitravel I’m okay.
Cool, huh?
So, you are using WordPress for this Blog, when can we use OpenID on your site?
Is there a wordpress plugin yet?