Telegraph to adopt OpenID
Monday, January 21st, 2008Shane Richmond, communities editor at the Telegraph.co.uk, today announced on his blog that the Telegraph would be adopting OpenID by the end of February.
This is very exciting because not only are they accepting OpenIDs, they will be providing them for users also. As his post says, they are the first newspaper in the world and the first British media company to be doing this.
In brief, Open ID is a decentralised sign-on system allowing users to log on to multiple sites with a single ID hosted by any of the participating sites without having to remember multiple usernames and passwords.
Having multiple log ins for loads of different sites has been a constant tyranny when using multiple services across different machines at home and work. Open ID is a great step towards solving this problem. Having organisations such as the Telegraph adopting these standards will only help nurture adoption and accelerate its path into the mainstream.