There are a couple of really interesting posts about OpenID online, as of yesterday.
- Richard McManus at Read/WriteWeb has published a short video of setting up an OpenID. It’s trivial to do.
- Sam Ruby’s Open ID for non-SuperUsers walks you through the basics of setting up an OpenID, and then redirecting it to the web page of your choice (say, a blog).Â
I claimed my openID using ClaimID, and then used it to log-in, and publish a comment on this posting, which is about a WordPress OpenID plug-in. It works as advertised. With OpenID I now have a transportable identity, which I can use anywhere. Wow! My next steps will be to populate the identity with more information, and then take some of Sam Ruby’s steps to redirect it to http://saunderslog.com so that I can use my blog as my ID.
Another piece of the Voice 2.0 vision seems to be coming to life. Moreover, with support from Verisign and a host of others, it seems that OpenID might have some legs too.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
