How many more are you willing to put up with?
OpenID is an authentication system that has been gaining momentum recently as we progress into a bigger better web world, often called "Web 2.0". Does the situation described below seem familiar?
"When you went to hotmail to get your free email, it was okay to sign up
with a name that was available. But then came photo sharing sites, the
bank(s), your utility companies, the baseball leagues web site, the
on-line merchants who sold you books, clothes, electronics and pretty
soon you had more logins than you care to remember. Sounds so web 1.0!
Doesn’t it? How long will users continue to get around with the
shackles from the web 1.0 era ? Not for long would be my guess — if
there were a better alternative."
The proposed solution is to assign unique usernames that emulate website addresses (URLs). To start to stop the cycle, go over to VeriSign’s free OpenID sign-up. Here they will register all your essentials and generate a unique "web address" username that can then be used in all participating websites. Presently only early adopters are participating, but shortly this will become the prevailing trend — so secure a reasonable name today, so you won’t be stuck with something like tngerine34@hotmail.com
