- Single Sign on vs Single ID
- Open ID Benefits
- Open ID Technical Implementation
- Windows Live ID Overview
- Windows Live ID Development Tools
- Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication
- Windows Live ID Federated Authentication
- http://dev.aol.com/article/
2007/openid_primer_for_php - http://openid.net/add-openid/
- http://openid.net/get-an-
openid/what-is-openid/ - http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jain/
cse571-07/ftp/websso/ - http://openidexplained.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Windows_Live_ID - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/bb288408. aspx - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/bb676631. aspx - Video
4 comments:
From the user perspective I like the idea of OpenID for signing up for new sites, but my initial attempts haven't been promising. Since both Google and Blogger are listed as OpenID providers I decided to duplicate the demo of signing up for wikitravel. So far I'm not impressed. First was the issue of the OpenID itself. I thought I'd try Google first since I use Google fairly frequently, but I couldn't figure out what my Google OpenID is. Googling for "what is my google openid" was surprisingly unhelpful. So then it occurred to me to try my blogspot url, which worked...after a fashion. I was directed to blogspot by wikitravel to log in and then I was directed back, but something appears to have gone wrong with wikitravel when I tried to select a username. At least I think it was a problem with wikitravel, I really can't be sure.
In the end, I'm guessing I could easily have signed up for wikitravel directly 4 or 5 times in the length of time I've spent trying to get OpenID to work. Good thing I don't actually care about signing up for wikitravel! :-)
Ok, I'm sure there's a very good chance that this is either a fluke or I'm doing something wrong, but I'm also quite sure that I've spent a LOT more effort than the average web-surfer would even think about exerting for this.
Another thought I had about OpenID is about the point made in the presentation that not many OpenID providers actually consume it.
At first that seemed odd, but it occurs to me that for a lot of the big players (Google, Yahoo!, MySpace, etc.) it might actually be counterproductive to allow people use an OpenID that is provided by someone else. After all, if you're Yahoo you want everyone to sign up directly and use Yahoo's services as their "primary" site. It doesn't necessarily help Yahoo to let people use their Google-provided OpenID to access services that the anonymous (not signed up/in) web-surfer can't use. In fact, doing so could very well prevent people from even considering signing up for a Yahoo account.
Swap names, lather, rinse, repeat.
Peter, I think you are right. Open ID may be for small players who want to attract visitors; most visitors are not willing to register for another identity of an unfamiliar website (including me). So using their existing identity offer convenience and privacy (sort of).
And also, people get used to the ids which they have and they dont feel like trying new one's.. And some might also have many ids and might not be willing to add new one's to the existing one's as continuous monitoring of all ids might snatch away so much time..
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