OpenID in the news

I’ve probably just drank too much of the Koolaid and always have OpenID on the brain … but I’m really excited by a few articles/notes that I found this weekend.

Evan Prodromou had a great round-up on Web 2.0 over at LinuxWorld. One of the first things he mentioned was OpenID which is starting to gain some momentum. Evan introduced OpenID to his site (WikiTravel.org) and even gave us some props for our libraries. OpenID is “dead simple” which is the key to its uptake and the reason its gaining momentum so quickly.

The Fedora Project recently had their Fedora Summit where they discussed using OpenID as well. They are even kicking around making it so when a user boots up Fedora for the first time, they could get an OpenID account … hopefully for use on all of the OpenID enabled Fedora tools like bug tracking, forums, wiki’s and others.

The same themes keep driving home; simple, easy and decentralized. Yes, there are a lot of possibilities for what OpenID could be doing but today its about doing one thing and doing it well; authentication. The rest of it will come with time.

Update: Fixed the Fedora OpenID link … thanks Evan!