Finally I hearkened to the call of the revolution and decided to join OpenID, thus creating my online identity, which I actually delegated to this website.
Now, I'll be able to register and sign in web services and platforms with just a link that "is" my online identity, not having to type all over again usernames and passwords for an infinite number of sites. Great.
Note: If even with my little introduction this openid stuff is just "chinese" to you, you'll find plenty of information on the official website and also if, for you, portuguese is not "chinese", this guide done by Alcides Fonseca will be pretty useful.
But now what? Where are the sites which I can join by such method?
Truth is, there aren't many... but the technology is promising, so we as developers can only help it, not really by using the system, but by creating websites that support it.
So one of the features this blog might have in the future is OpenID enabled for the comments, which I'll study to implement. If you have a wordpress blog, you can do the same easier and even more by installing the wp-openid plugin.
Now, I'll be able to register and sign in web services and platforms with just a link that "is" my online identity, not having to type all over again usernames and passwords for an infinite number of sites. Great.
Note: If even with my little introduction this openid stuff is just "chinese" to you, you'll find plenty of information on the official website and also if, for you, portuguese is not "chinese", this guide done by Alcides Fonseca will be pretty useful.
But now what? Where are the sites which I can join by such method?
Truth is, there aren't many... but the technology is promising, so we as developers can only help it, not really by using the system, but by creating websites that support it.
So one of the features this blog might have in the future is OpenID enabled for the comments, which I'll study to implement. If you have a wordpress blog, you can do the same easier and even more by installing the wp-openid plugin.
Actually, with all the late buzz about this technology, it was quite difficult not to give attention to it, mainly given the news about Yahoo, which turned out to be an OpenID provider and advertised its new feature.
But actually, what's so good in this news? Of course it's great to have a giant of the web being an openid provider but, the other feature of openid, the one which actually matters to those who already were on the bandwagon before Yahoo jumped in, which is the ability to sign in the services of Yahoo with OpenID, is not there just because they made it only possible with Yahoo as a provider. For me this is not OpenID, this is the same closed system that has always been around and I simply can't find any good in it for the ones that chose not Yahoo as their openid provider.
If all the webservices were like Yahoo, we would better be as we were when there was no OpenID.
But actually, what's so good in this news? Of course it's great to have a giant of the web being an openid provider but, the other feature of openid, the one which actually matters to those who already were on the bandwagon before Yahoo jumped in, which is the ability to sign in the services of Yahoo with OpenID, is not there just because they made it only possible with Yahoo as a provider. For me this is not OpenID, this is the same closed system that has always been around and I simply can't find any good in it for the ones that chose not Yahoo as their openid provider.
If all the webservices were like Yahoo, we would better be as we were when there was no OpenID.