I was intrigued by a post on Scott Hanselman’s blog regarding OpenID. I was interested in enabling OpenID authentication to my blogs, but had some problems with the WordPress OpenID plugin.
A while ago, Jim Lawson pointed me to this very useful presentation of the OpenID technology by Simon Willison as part of Google’s TechTalks. I thought I’d watch it to make sure I have a decent understanding of the technology. It didn’t disappoint:
Interesting trivia at the end: the average user has 18 accounts and 3.49 passwords. (video dated June 25, 2007).
Among other TechTalks that I want to watch, I spotted one entitled Internet Scale Identity, Collaboration, and Higher Education. Sounds very interesting.
I’ll have to bang on the OpenID thing some more to get it working. There’s a new version of the plugin; perhaps that will help.
Let me know if you continue having problems with the latest release (v3.0) of the WordPress plugin… it should be much more stable than the 2.x releases.