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Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Michael Hastings — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:37:39 -0000

I appreciate having one, unified way of signing in and out of various web properties, but is OPEN ID the protocol we want to use for this? Where is the actual "secure" verification in the process?

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

pepe — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:46:49 -0000

ipernity, uses OpenID too

http://www.ipernity.com/

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

mark — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:35:23 -0000

More sites definitely need to support this format.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Kevin Fox — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:04:02 -0000

There are also the JanRain sites, Jyte.com (claim and credibility engine) and Pibb.com (online communication platform) which are worth checking out if you have an OpenID.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Matthew Schmidt — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:00:48 -0000

For the web designer or developer among us, there's also DZone which supports login via OpenID. It's social bookmarking and voting for developers.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Joshua C. Lerner — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:28:08 -0000

BusyTonight (wiki-based city guides) just rolled out support for OpenID:

http://busytonight.com/wiki...

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

connectionfailure — Sun, 20 May 2007 11:10:53 -0000

What wasn't exactly clear about the article was that if you have a free WordPress blog, then you already have an OpenID! This is awesome. I now have two more OpenIDs then I thought I had.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Adam Ostrow — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:56:45 -0000

I was in the same boat until working on this post. Now, especially with the AIM integration, I can see myself using OpenID a lot on new services that support it.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Jason — Wed, 16 May 2007 20:26:34 -0000

I think Open ID is a good compliment to the traditional login and account system. We just recently implemented it as an alternative way to signup an account at our new web 2.0 tools startup CleverTools.com. We did not feel like we should force users to use Open ID as not every knows or wants it.

I never was fond of open id until I realized how useful it was. Probably atleast one time a day I forget a password somewhere and have to recover it. So, if all the site I used had open id support, this would not be an issue.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Brian Ellin — Wed, 16 May 2007 20:18:33 -0000

Jyte.com is a fun site for building attributes and cred around your OpenID.

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Motorcycle Guy — Wed, 16 May 2007 18:42:51 -0000

That's cool that you can use your aim sn to login to open Id I didn't know that. Livejournal advertises it but I'd rather use my aim sn anyway.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Rich Sharples — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:48:19 -0000

wrt to Zoomr.

If you want to "sign in" and have an OpenID already - it's very straight forward - just as it should be. I just tried it - happy with the experience.

If you click "sign-up" you seem to be requesting a new OpenID from MyopenID.com. I think Zooomr could be way more clear about this. The login screen simply needs a link "Don't have an OpenID - get one here" and all would be fine and dandy.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Needn't know — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:48:10 -0000

"14 great ways to use openId", isn't the title itself misleading? "14 places where you can use openId" would be more appropriate.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Pat — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:31:12 -0000

Submit and vote on suggestions:
FeVote

People can login using their OpenID or Yahoo! ID.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:55:23 -0000

I tried implementing OpenID login for comments on my blog, like Centernetworks has, and it was too difficult to do with ease. There's a simple WP plug-in, but it requires using the command line to install a PHP library. If I can't FTP it, it's going to take more time than I've got.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Alex Rudloff — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:51:08 -0000

Netscape.com has had OpenID for quite some time now, and a pretty solid implementation.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Kev — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:14:47 -0000

Hey Peter, try this implementation: http://commongate.com/openid
as far as I know, is the first social network with OpenID support.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:54:29 -0000

Registration might have been a poor choice of words - the nice thing about OpenID on Zooomr (and many of the other services listed) is that you don't need to actually create a Zooomr account, you can just login with OpenID. However, while this worked last night when I was writing this, at the moment it is getting me stuck on AOLs sign in page. Perhaps there are indeed some problems with Zooomr's implementation.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Robert Dewey — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:37:39 -0000

Way. Too. Complicated.

E-mail address and password, please.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Peter — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:22:29 -0000

Richard you apparently haven't actually tried it. I know that is the promise of OpenID but the truth is that it doesn't come close to delivering that promise -- at least not in the case of Zooomr.

Give it a try... register on Zooomr as both an OpenID-having customer, and also someone who doens't already have an OpenID. As I mentioned, I had to enter my information *three* times.

It might be a flaw in Zooomr's implementation, but I think it speaks to a greater issue -- one that there is this implicit assumption that OpenID is going to make our lives easier, when in reality, so far, the exact opposite appears to be true.

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Richard — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:13:32 -0000

Hi,

You can use the social network Ziki with OpenID, then they the oportunity to host your OpenID too.

Peter : OpenId permits to only remenber 1 password and do not have to re-enter information about yourself each time you create an account

Re: 14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now

Peter — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:27:06 -0000

Have you ever tried to register for Zoomr? "Quick registration" it is not. You get bounced back and forth between different web sites and get to fill in your information not once, not twice, but three times. OpenID is helping how exactly?