OpenID
Screw the technology! Focus on what users understand.
2008 has been a fairly interesting year in the realm of single sign-on services. Every tech person's favourite method of signing into multiple sites with the same service, OpenID, has seen a lot of corporate adoption throughout the social internet. And not too long ago, Facebook unveiled its Facebook Connect service, letting you access a number of sites with your Facebook details.
If things continue the way they are, this time next year nobody will know what OpenID is (or was).
WordPress.com is an OpenID provider, but doesn't allow others to use OpenID for login or commenting
Following on the whole Zemanta thing I’ve been going on about, I was going to comment on the Knowledge Workers blog about my experiences thus far. But, the blog requires people to log in to comment. No problem, WordPress.com is an OpenID provider, no doubt they let people log in using OpenID too. Wrong!
