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These days we have thousands of websites and in that we have to login in to tons of sites to access information or to use them. Are you going through the frustration of remembering tens of hundreds of IDs? Well no heartburn anymore. You can use Open ID for all those websites who allow you to use it.

What is Open ID?

Open ID is an existing ID provided by providers approved by the Open ID foundation. It is a identity technology on the net and is a open source.

Usage and Benefits:

Open ID is gaining acceptance with many large organizations and services providers are embracing it. Many large organizations now accept or provide Open ID like Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, Sears, Universal Music Group, France Telecom, Novell, Sun etc.

You might have seen many websites these days allow users to login with Facebook login ID. Have you ever thought what causes this? Because, Facebook ID is an Open ID. If you have an ID from AOL, Yahoo, Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Google, Facebook, Myspace etc then you already own an Open ID. These IDs can be used on any website when accepts Open ID to login. I have found a site Openidexplained which very nicely explained how get Open ID, its usage and its aspects.

Security:

Well, Open ID is as much secure as your other IDs. Nothing more, nothing less. Like with other IDs, if someone can get access to this information, they can manipulate it.

Advantage:

The major advantage pf Open ID is it allows you to use one login credentials to login to various web services. Also, it can became as source of identity on the internet.

Where from I can get Open ID:

You can obtain open ID from the following websites:

1. Yahoo.com
2. MyopenID.com
3. OpenID.org

If you run your own WordPress blog then you can use the Open ID plugin.

History:

The original Open ID authentication protocol was written by Brad Fitzpatrick in May 2005 and was named as YADIS (Yet another distributed identity system). The name was changed to Open ID, when the domain Openid.net was assigned for this project. Read more ……..

Open ID foundation website: http://openid.net/