Thoughts on OpenID?

This is a short post I posted on Geeksouth's Forum on 02/18/2007. OpenID is something I'm closely watching and have some ideas for with some applications I'm involved with.

What do you guys think about OpenID? I’ve just started looking into it slowly over the past couple of weeks and like the idea. Like many, I’m getting sick of setting up usernames and passwords all over the place (we are all a bit prey to the useless account), and would love to have something like OpenID that I could use to handle this if I wanted.

This past October, Technorati announced support for OpenID. Livejournal has been OpenID enabled for some time now, AND if you have a Vox blog then you can use that as an OpenID (where you see an OpenID login box put in your Vox url… example: mine is mrmoody.vox.com)

Also recently announced was a site called idproxy.net. This site allows you to use your Yahoo ID as an OpenID (if that was something you’d like to do). Microsoft has also announced plans to support it.

There are already libraries out there for pretty much every development language which easily allows OpenID authentication for your application.