Open ID Initiative - The Basics Explained
Yahoo Moves To Support The Open ID Initiative - What Does It Mean For Internet Users? With more people accessing the internet now while away from home and their PC's via laptops, cell phones, and other emerging technologies, someone has figured out a way to streamline and speed up the sharing of information even further.
With the new 'Open ID Initiative', consumers can now log onto all their favorite websites without having to use a bunch of different user names and a bunch of different passwords.
This speeds up the transfer of information even for those users who use the same screen name and password for all their websites and still have to pause to type in the information and wait for it to be acknowledged.
What Is Open ID? Open ID is the creation of a single digital identity for a user on line that is used across all websites and across all platforms.
Be it a tabletop PC, a laptop, a phone or wireless device, anything it can access it can access without having to officially log in with the user having to type out a name and a password.
All the websites and services will recognize the Open ID user instantly without requiring any more information.
You simply type in a single universal user name and password through an Open ID Initiative Provider such as Yahoo, and the feature will automatically log you into any website that you have visited in the past that required a screen name, a password, or both.
You don't have to pause and type in different or the same information over and over again.
Still in the process of being adopted across the internet, the Open ID Initiative got a huge boost when Yahoo announced it is adding Open ID to it's service.
The best thing about Open ID is that it never goes out of date and it never expires.
Many websites and services will allow you to be logged in automatically for a week or more, but then the term expires and you have to enter the information again.
Not with Open ID.
The moment the website comes up it recognizes you instantly and you'll never be confronted with another 'Please Log In' page.
Who Needs Open ID? Someone who hardly ever goes on-line or only visits a handful of websites probably doesn't.
But anybody who is frequently on-line and visits many different sites and shares or retrieves information often could certainly use it.
Without Open ID, if you wanted to send an e-mail of a picture to a friend's cell phone from your own cell phone, you would have to: Log on to your phone service's internet access feature Log on to the photo-sharing site where you stored the picture; Log on to your e-mail service's website Send the picture.
That's 3 times you had to pause and type in a user name and a password.
With the Open ID feature, you open up your phone service's internet access feature and it instantly recognizes your identity, so there's no pause to enter any information.
You click to go to the photo-sharing site and it also instantly allows you access.
Finally you click onto your e-mail service and it too instantly allows you in.
You didn't have to pause and type anything, and the entire process is speeded up dramatically.
Who Owns Or Profits From Open ID? Nobody and no one.
To quote the founder of the Open ID Initiative, Brad Fitzpatrick: "Nobody should own this.
Nobody's planning on making any money from this.
The goal is to release every part of this under the most liberal licenses possible, so there's no money or licensing or registering required to play.
It benefits the community as a whole if something like this exists, and we're all a part of the community.
" Open ID was created to meet a need that was seen in the internet community, and as such it's creators want that community to have full access to it.
To allow any particular service to charge for the feature or for one entity to claim ownership of it would by nature raise restrictions, which is what the founders of the Open ID Initiative are working diligently to avoid.
Who Supports Open ID? At present there are over 10,000 websites that respond to this feature.
You can quickly see which internet sites are presently Open ID enabled by checking out the directories found here: https://www.
myopenid.
com/directory http://openiddirectory.
com/ The list of websites that are Open ID enabled is growing by the day, so check the directories often.
How Can I Get An Open ID? Getting an Open ID is fast and easy.
Simply log on at the following link to find a list of Open ID providers: http://openid.
net/get/ Get an Open ID today and enjoy the benefits of never having to stop and type another password to get into your favorite sites!
With the new 'Open ID Initiative', consumers can now log onto all their favorite websites without having to use a bunch of different user names and a bunch of different passwords.
This speeds up the transfer of information even for those users who use the same screen name and password for all their websites and still have to pause to type in the information and wait for it to be acknowledged.
What Is Open ID? Open ID is the creation of a single digital identity for a user on line that is used across all websites and across all platforms.
Be it a tabletop PC, a laptop, a phone or wireless device, anything it can access it can access without having to officially log in with the user having to type out a name and a password.
All the websites and services will recognize the Open ID user instantly without requiring any more information.
You simply type in a single universal user name and password through an Open ID Initiative Provider such as Yahoo, and the feature will automatically log you into any website that you have visited in the past that required a screen name, a password, or both.
You don't have to pause and type in different or the same information over and over again.
Still in the process of being adopted across the internet, the Open ID Initiative got a huge boost when Yahoo announced it is adding Open ID to it's service.
The best thing about Open ID is that it never goes out of date and it never expires.
Many websites and services will allow you to be logged in automatically for a week or more, but then the term expires and you have to enter the information again.
Not with Open ID.
The moment the website comes up it recognizes you instantly and you'll never be confronted with another 'Please Log In' page.
Who Needs Open ID? Someone who hardly ever goes on-line or only visits a handful of websites probably doesn't.
But anybody who is frequently on-line and visits many different sites and shares or retrieves information often could certainly use it.
Without Open ID, if you wanted to send an e-mail of a picture to a friend's cell phone from your own cell phone, you would have to: Log on to your phone service's internet access feature Log on to the photo-sharing site where you stored the picture; Log on to your e-mail service's website Send the picture.
That's 3 times you had to pause and type in a user name and a password.
With the Open ID feature, you open up your phone service's internet access feature and it instantly recognizes your identity, so there's no pause to enter any information.
You click to go to the photo-sharing site and it also instantly allows you access.
Finally you click onto your e-mail service and it too instantly allows you in.
You didn't have to pause and type anything, and the entire process is speeded up dramatically.
Who Owns Or Profits From Open ID? Nobody and no one.
To quote the founder of the Open ID Initiative, Brad Fitzpatrick: "Nobody should own this.
Nobody's planning on making any money from this.
The goal is to release every part of this under the most liberal licenses possible, so there's no money or licensing or registering required to play.
It benefits the community as a whole if something like this exists, and we're all a part of the community.
" Open ID was created to meet a need that was seen in the internet community, and as such it's creators want that community to have full access to it.
To allow any particular service to charge for the feature or for one entity to claim ownership of it would by nature raise restrictions, which is what the founders of the Open ID Initiative are working diligently to avoid.
Who Supports Open ID? At present there are over 10,000 websites that respond to this feature.
You can quickly see which internet sites are presently Open ID enabled by checking out the directories found here: https://www.
myopenid.
com/directory http://openiddirectory.
com/ The list of websites that are Open ID enabled is growing by the day, so check the directories often.
How Can I Get An Open ID? Getting an Open ID is fast and easy.
Simply log on at the following link to find a list of Open ID providers: http://openid.
net/get/ Get an Open ID today and enjoy the benefits of never having to stop and type another password to get into your favorite sites!