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openID

Check out openID: the open (i.e. not-vendor-locked-in — hello MS Passport) single-sign-on web identity standard. Pretty cool. I just got myself a free identity page at myopenid.com. I thought about setting up an openID server at meyerbros.org, which doesn’t look hard, but then I ran across these instructions on using openID delegation. So I let myopenid.com handle the details of running the server and I can still use carl.meyerbros.org as my openID login URI. Nice.

Next step - setting up blog.meyerbros.org as an openID consumer (so people can login to comment using their openID identity instead of having to register). Looks pretty easy.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 6:08 pm by carl and is filed under geeky, identity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “openID”

  1. eric Says:

    March 7th, 2007 at 2:46 am

    another one of those things, like the fax machine and microformats, that becomes more and more useful as it becomes more and more ubiquitous. i’ll go set up my account and cross my fingers.

    facebook, not friendster. jump drive, not zip disk. iphone, not zune.