I found something interesting today...
I have been toying with an application that would allow for DVD/Music - Media sharing between friends. Not file sharing, but the loaning of the physical media to friends you trust to return it.
Anyway... I have been thinking that there should be an easier way to manage user identifies. Specifically, I don' t want the legal hassles of maintaining the personal infomation of a number of users in yet another login/user database. That is why when I found OpenId I thought I found the holy grail!
I haven't had the time really look at the interface specification or the libraries provided to access the user information, but on initial look it seems pretty good. We shall see.
Having all this person infomation floating around the internet is just an invitation to identity theft. I am hoping that a service like the above will succeed, if only to let developers focus on the unique value and not on replicated functionality like identity management.
Enjoy.
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