beTech 2/20/08

“OpenIDs are universal login names which can be used at any OpenID-enabled website. These usernames

resemble regular website domains or addresses, such as example.com/bill

or steve.example.com”

History• Developed by Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal

• Driven by blogosphere needs

• Bounty program of $50,000 launched in 2006

• ~160 million OpenID’s and ~10 thousand sites supporting it

“Nobody should own this. Nobody’s planning on making any money from this. The goal is to release every part of this under the most liberal licenses possible, so there’s no money or licensing or registering required to play. It benefits the community as a whole if something like this exists, and we’re all a part of the community.”

Hows it Work?

Xsee: http://openid.net/developers/specs/

One Login, Many Sites

epugh.myopenid.com Over 10k places!https://www.myopenid.com/

directoryhttp://openiddirectory.com/

Advanced Features• multiple personas• control what data sites request (nickname, email)• Pavatar, hCard, MicroID

Open Standard No one owns it!

Shepherded by OpenID Foundation

Supported by AOL, Yahoo, Google!

Wordpress, LiveJournal etcDick Hardt of Sxip Identity, Josh Hoyt of JanRain,

and David Recordon of Six Apart

You have to think about your provider!

OpenID 1 vs 2

Reliance on another system

Still not widely used

Identity theft?

Use ful links?

• http://spreadopenid.org/

• http://www.37signals.com/openid/

• http://www.myopenid.com/

• http://openid.net/