openID has it achieved the openness it aimed for
i'm a bit behind on net news lately..
I just read a big announcement that yahoo is supporting openID.
But when I read the fine print i was disappointed. What it says is yahoo will let you use your existing Yahoo ID on other sites, but it won't let you use existing OpenID service provider elsewhere. AOL is in the same boat.. I can use my ...
Zyons + OpenID .. what a match
"OpenID":http://www.openid.net/ is a decentralized identity system which allows you to store your details on a single machine, and use that to login instead of having to continually re-register and remember the passwords for each place you go to. (they describe it better). anyway..more importantly .. "Zyons":http://zyons.com/ now uses it. (yay!) two services you can use are: * "ClaimID":http://claimid.com/ * "MyOpenID ...