As the entire computing world continues to move further and further onto Internet based applications, many have tried to come up with a way to allow all these fantastic applications to be used as one, much like your computers user account.

OpenID is the only project that seems to have succeeded at taking a step into providing an online identity. If you’ve not used OpenID before, it basically allows you to have 1 account to use across thousands of websites.

I’ve now integrated OpenID support into RickyMills.com through the use of a great wordpress plugin by Will Norris. Additionally, I created my own OpenID realm so I can login with “RickyMills.com”! This was possible through the use of a great little PHP script called phpMyID. I recommend it to anyone wanting to create an OpenID based on their own website address!

Anyone interested in OpenID should take a look at http://www.openid.net for all the details!