Easy Registration with OpenID: An Example

May 17, 2007 in OpenID by Carsten Pötter | 1 comment

Yesterday Mashable was featuring a well written overview of 14 OpenID enabled websites. The article covers a wide spectrum of sites from travel site WikiTravel to photo sharing site Zooomr and many more. I think it is especially great that the emphasis is on websites which provide services a lot of people are using almost daily.

In the comments one user is complaining that it was too difficult to use OpenID, especially in regards to Zooomr. I don’t know what he has done wrong because users can sign in to Zooomr like to any other OpenID enabled website. So here is a small guide how to sign in with an OpenID; I assume you already have an OpenID (TypeKey, LiveJournal, AIM,…):

sign in Since you already have an OpenID you can simply to sign in; there’s is no need to register with it like you have to when using user name/password. So simply click the sign-in link.

Now type in the URL of your OpenID:

openid url You will be forwarded directly to your OpenID provider which is myOpenID in this example. There you will have to confirm your identity; you can either allow confirmation to the relying party (=Zooomr) once, forever, or you can even deny it.

verification

By clicking any of the allow buttons you will be re-directed back to Zooomr where you can complete your registration. As you can see all required forms are filled in already.

registration

I think signing in with an OpenID is pretty straight forward and actually rather easy; it will take just a few seconds. All you have to know is the user name and password of your OpenID provider.

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