The Implications of OpenId (Simon Wilson Speaks at Google Tech Chat)

Here is a talk on OpenID by Simon Wilson. It's long (51 minutes), but for anyone who is interested in the implications of OpenID then you'll want to check this one out.

clipped from www.youtube.com The Implications of OpenID OpenID is an emerging standard that provides simple, decentralised authentication for the Web. OpenID follows the Unix philosophy, solving one small problem rather than attempting to tackle the many larger challenges posed by online identity. This talk will explore the implications of OpenID, and explore the best practices required to take advantage of this new technology while avoiding the potential pitfalls. Speaker: Simon Willison Simon Willison is a consultant on OpenID and client- and server-side Web development, and a co-creator of the Django Web framework. Before going frelance Simon worked on Yahoo!'s Technology Development

OpenId on Wordpress

Here is a short video on how to integrate OpenId with your Wordpress blog. It demonstrates a plugin called WP-OpenID.

Again, I added some comments from YouTube after the video.

clipped from www.youtube.com OpenID on Wordpress In this video, I discuss openid on the Wordpress blogging engine. I would not force people to log in to post a comment... You can use the plugin and people who have openid-enabled their blog, will log in with openid while commenting, others won't notice anything. The first kind of commenters who have logged in with openid will have the openID logo in front of their comment (that is, if your theme doesn't prevent that - if so you need to tweak your theme). The openid logo will indicate to readers that that comment is _really_ from that user from that website.

Another great video on how to use OpenId

This is perhaps the best one yet. Clear, easy to understand. No worthwhile YouTube comments, though.

clipped from www.youtube.com How to login to sites using OpenID How to login to votay.com using OpenID

Great video demonstration of OpenId

This is an excellent video which clearly shows how to set up and start using OpenID. Again, I included some comments from YouTube users at the end of the video.

clipped from www.youtube.com OpenID Show Explains how OpenID works This is a really great explanation! I'm just in the process of enabling OpenID authentication for my site. I can't believe it took me so long to understand the real power of OpenID. I suddenly want to become an evangelist and get the whole world to understand it! :) @drakasx - It has been thought of before - Remember Microsoft Passport? This system is better, because it is open, and not reliant one one company. Great explanation, now I understand how OpenID works. However, I don't onderstand why it is so long until they made something like this? I had thought of this idea about 6 years ago, and, well, it is nothin gtoo special for me! You still didn't answer the question about losing your OpenID :|

Video on OpenId

Here is a clever, helpful video on OpenId - a new technology designed to make it easier to sign into websites (watch the video to see what I mean).

Below I clipped some of the comments from YouTube (it seems that not everyone is enamored with the idea.

I guess we'll just have to see if this takes off.

clipped from www.youtube.com OpenID According to Dave A short video explaining OpenID, brought to you by myVidoop.com the authentication part is fine but the email part is wrong, I don't want to use the same email for every site I sign up for. There are many solution to the too many users and passwords problems. this soluiton requires sites to implement it, that's never going to happen with enough sites to become a real solution for the user (and the big ones will not want to do this at all) isn't this like cardspace? (or whatever it was called) I'd rather use a plug in that saves my passwords locally This is a disaster. There exist several ways to gain access to any server that checks with an IDP : One way that is not impossible is by using DNS poisoning so the service asks a fake IDP about "is this dave ?" ( or anyone else you wanna gain access for ) and always get yes answer. Superb explanation for noobs. I'll stick it in my blog so I know where to find it! Thanks, myvidoop.