Getting an OpenID is as easy as 1-2-3

Saw Simon mention a three-step process for getting an OpenID show up on reddit and of course I have to link to it because they are using MyOpenID as the example … :-)

This is also a great time to mention the affiliate program that we launched a few weeks ago. If you run your own site but don’t want to host an OpenID server, you can sign up as an affiliate and redirect users to MyOpenID.com to get their own OpenID. The user is presented with a logo from your site as well as a description of why they were directed there. You can see an example from my blog here.

Some of the better known affiliates are Ma.gnolia.com, a great social-bookmarking site and Zooomr, a really amazing photo-sharing site. If you don’t want to run an OpenID server, we’re more than happy to do it for you. And you can even use your own domain if you want to.

Finally, if you want to run your own OpenID server you can do that as well. phpMyID is a great standalone PHP OpenID identity provider that was just released a week or so ago. You can then manage your own server and deliver identities yourself.