How to save time with registrations and profile management

OpenID is a shared identity service which allows users to use the same credentials to logon to any site supporting OpenID. Gone are the days when you had to fill in your first name and last name and email and pin and beat the captchas. Welcome to the new world of identity management. You have a single username and a single password so you needn’t remember tens of those. But how do you get one?

OpenID service is provided by various providers. Yahoo, MyOpenID, LiveJournal being some of the better known. You register on any one of these providers once and for all. Next time you visit a site that supports OpenID, you can use the same userid and password to log in. OpenID is getting popular so much so that there are many CMS which can use the OpenID authentication natively or with a plugin and save you a lot of frustration. This goes for many Wordpress and Drupal and other blogs and forums. So if you want to get the ability to use a single username and password and comment on an OpenID supporting site you are in for a treat.