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Open ID

The Open ID project is a great initiative. Imagine you can login into all of your application sites (facebook, google apps, vimeo, flickr, blogger, msn) with only one username and password.

Right now if I change my password for gmail I have to go through all my frequently used sites and change each password or I’ll forget or mix up logins. If you use OpenID you only have to change it in one place. Which is nice when you probably have at least 5 or more logins for different frequently used sites).

Too many open IDs

I really like the single sign on concept but the reality shows that we’re not there yet. Several big players “work” with openID but I still cannot login with my selfmade openID url johndoe.myopenid.com. I can not use it when I login to google apps, facebook or flickr who all “work” with openID.

They all have an integration with openID. Google gives you a beta link that you can use in an open id login field so you can use your google account to login into for example basecamp or plaxo. BUT Facebook has the same functionality and Yahoo also!. So yes you can login to open id enabled sites but you cannot use your google openid to login to flickr or facebook and vice versa and thus ruining the whole “open” concept.

Beautiful use of single sign on

I use Basecamp and could change my existing login name into my Open ID account within minutes also works with the google openid. Very nice since I use different basecamp and Highrise accounts and now I have three username/password combinations less to worry about.

You can almost touch it

The whole Single sign on dream seems near and you can almost touch it. Why wouldn’t google give access to their applications with a facebook account and vice versa? I guess they rather promote their own social network orkut then to make it easy for us the poor users. Would someone really move to orkut because of an extra password?

Still I hope that the OpenID project will succeed. I don’t like the idea of all Single SIgn on ID with one company like Facebook, Google or Microsoft. Just doesnt’ seem right that all this data is with a commercial institution.

Interesting article about Facebook Connect and Google Friends

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