OpenID Posts on Simon Willison's Website

clipped from simonwillison.net Search: “openid” How to turn your blog in to an OpenID Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same account to log in to multiple sites and applications, without having to trust them all with your password? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could do this without having to hand ownership of your online identity over to some monolithic third party? (I’m looking at you, .NET Passport Microsoft Passport Windows Live ID.) [... 832 words] clipped from simonwillison.net An OpenID is not an account! I’m excited to see that OpenID has finally started to gain serious traction outside of the Identity community. Understandably, misconceptions about OpenID continue to crop-up. The one I want to address in this entry is the idea that an OpenID can be used as a replacement for a regular user account. [... 601 words] clipped from simonwillison.net Six cool things you can build with OpenID