For those of you who don’t know about OpenID, it solves the single sign-on problem, one login to be used all across the internet. It is about time, I don’t know how much longer I was going to be able to support all my online username and password combos.
I have been using it for my highrise, technorati and Jyte accounts. I only wish it was supported by more sites that I frequent everyday. I have put it on my todo list to implement in Landscape.
A really neat thing about it is you can use your own website as your URI, instead of something like tkofol.myopenid.com I can use highimpactnoise.com, doesn’t that just sound a lot sweeter.
All you need to do is put the following lines in the head section web page you are trying to use as you URI.
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<link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" /> <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://myname.myopenid.com/" /> <meta http-equiv="X-XRDS-Location" content="http://myname.myopenid.com/xrds" /> |
OpenID seems here to stay as it continues to gain support from the industry. The reign of thousands of usernames and passwords clouding your memory is gone. Rejoice!
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