Have you heard about OpenID? I've recently read a lot about it from different blogs. OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying user’s online experience. More info http://openid.net/
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft and Google announce OpenID support.
We are in the middle of the development of Stuff 3.0 project. One of the key features is to allow readers to personalize their homepages, which will require users to sign up. I am thinking if we want to integrate OpenID and let our users to login Stuff.co.nz with their Gmail, yahoo accounts?
zoho.com is one of the websites accepts Gmail and Yahoo accounts.
Confusion
Normally, when you use your email address as your OpenID credential, the OpenID enabled site (the 'relying party') goes back to your OpenID provider and looks for a specific file (XRDS) on the server. However, Google chose not to implement this part of the OpenID ecosystem when it launched its OpenID implementation yesterday and made developers rely on Google's own API instead.
