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You might think that world’s leading tech guru’s are ornamented with educational degrees but today’s top tech leaders are otherwise. They chose to dropout from college to innovate and make fortune. Lets go ahead and meet few such leaders:

1. Bill Gates

Bill Gates created the largest software company in the world called Microsoft. He has been the richest man in the world for straight 12 years and this year has been relegated to the 2nd place by Mexican telecoms magnate Carlos Slim. He dropped out of Harvard university to start Microsoft with his high school friend Paul Allen. He has a person net worth of $53 billion. In 2007 Harvard conferred a honorary degree on him.

2. Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is the man behind Mac and iPods was too a college dropout. He dropped out of college in 1976 to start Apple with his fellow class mate Steve Wozniak.

3. Michael Dell

Michael Dell was studying medicine at the university of Texas, Austin when he decided to drop to run PC’s Limited which he started a while ago. PC’s Limited latter became Dell Inc.

4. Paul Allen

Paul Allen left Washington State University to start Microsoft with Bill Gates. But he left Microsoft after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease.

5. Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison is the founder and CEO of Oracle Corp. Oracle mainly deals with databases and enterprise customers. He dropped out of University of Illinois and university of Chicago. He started Oracle in 1977 with $2000 and now his personal worth is $22.5 billion.

6. Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang and his batch mate David Filo created what could be said to be the first user’s website. It was directory of other websites called Jerry’s guide to World Wide Web. This later renamed as Yahoo in 1995. Jerry dropped out of Stanford university in 1994.

7. Mark Zukerberg

Mark created the technological phenomenon of this century called Facebook. It has become such a rage that people not only use for networking, it now also used for events management, surveys, announcements, advertising etc. He dropped out of Harvard university to run Facebook.

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/