Monday 16 February 2009

Open ID - One ring to free them all. Or not?

The user registration has been, is and will be a key action in the Internet world.

The registration is strictly connected with the service concept (Forum, Chat, web mail, IM, blog, Microblogging) free or not free, and for extension with the portal idea of content and entertainment.

"One ring to rule them all" became the final achievement.
The strategic and economic value of the registered users was evident from the beginning and became the ultimate goal. Today the registration step is still more compelling.

The social networking went in using two different account versions. The distribute one and the comprehensive one, being Google the leading actor for the former and Facebook for the later. The Gmail account became the general purpose id/pwd combination for the Google World of services and the Facebook account (or MySpace, etc..) the open door for a comprehensive environment, a kind of network inside the big Internet.

The open ID foundation could be the meeting point for all the different positions and its adoption by the big players (Microsoft, Google, Facebook....) and by the Portal and Services sites could mean a veritable turnaround in the user registration and management.

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