After struggling for the last month to figure out why my signon.com account would not let me authenticate to this site and others, I finally registered with myopenid.com and got that account to work perfectly.

For those who are not familiar with OpenID, visit OpenID.Net to find out more about it. Check out my Favorite Sites section for links to other information sites about OpenID. If you are a web developer, these links will provide some examples of how to link your existing sites up to authenticate with OpenID accounts.

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.