Our identities online are becoming ever more valuable to the companies that we entrust them to. What happens though when a company just ups and closes shop (Pownce, for example) and deletes your stuff? Sure, the individual files you'll have on your computer anyway, you won't have lost anything as far as bits and bytes are concerned--but what about friendships you've built up with people who you only know through the service. Your data should be portable so that you can take it to any service and not lose those relationships that you've built up in one walled-garden when it collapses, or you decide to move on. OpenID tries to solve this brand-centric problem by placing you at the centre of your data and allowing the sites you trust access through a single sign-on. OSnews is contemplating implementing OpenID and would like your feedback, but there are a few questions to consider--please read on for details
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2005-11-10
I absolutely do not want to promote brand-based logins. These are a detriment to the web, and only helps over-complicate the login process by adding more and more buttons as brands want to get in on the space.
When we do OpenID, it will be a single text box and you will be expected to know your OpenID URI regardless of who it comes from. None of these companies will pay us to push their brands for them, so I ain’t doing it.