OpenID Explained

Posted on | April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment

From time to time I find myself trying to explain OpenID for people (mainly pedagogues) and it is not a very easy thing to explain in an understandable way. By a coincident I found a site called OpenID Explained that explains it in a very good and easy to understand way.

An OpenID is a way of identifying yourself no matter which web site you visit. It’s like a driver’s license for the entire Internet. But, it’s even more than that because you can (if you want) associate information with your OpenID like your name and your e-mail address, and then you choose how much web sites get to see about you. This means that web sites that take advantage of OpenID won’t bother you for the same information over and over again.

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