Last week, I spent a few days in San Francisco at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference, and I heard some new information regarding the usage of OpenID technology on the Internet. OpenID allows users of the Internet (referred to as Netizens) to manage their identity in a single location on the web, and use that identity to authenticate to multiple sites on the web, thus creating a single sign-on of sorts. I have to admit that I'm still a bit skeptical about its widespread use, but I have enabled the ability for users to authenticate to 4Minds using their OpenID identity.

To learn more about OpenID, visit http://www.openid.net, and to get your very own digital identity, go to http://www.signon.com, which is a site sponsored by Ping Identity, one of the leading developers in the Federated Identity market.