Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.

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Currently, Internet users need to create individual passwords for many websites they visit. Organizing and securing these password gets harder as we add a new website to our visit list in a week. There are some web services to solve this problem and OpenID is the one of the best ones.

OpenID is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on many different websites using a single digital identity. It’s a free but strong and secure service which is a good example of a ‘succesful Web 2.0 application’ . OpenId is still in the distribution phase and becoming more popular, as large companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Sun provide OpenId. There are over 160-million OpenID enabled URIs with nearly 10.000 + web sites supporting OpenID. OpenID is not owned by anyone and OpenID Foundation assists the open source model of OpenID.

As Brad Fitzpatrick (the father of OpenID) said, “Nobody should own this. Nobody’s planning on making any money from this. The goal is to release every part of this under the most liberal licenses possible, so there’s no money or licensing or registering required to play. It benefits the community as a whole if something like this exists, and we’re all a part of the community.”

Yesterday, Google announced that they move towards single sign-on with OpenID. You’ll be able to use OpenID supported web sites with your Gmail/Google account. OpenID gets stronger after Google joins the OpenID movement, because adding 51 million Gmail users to its community is a big acquisition for OpenID. ZoHo is the first company which lets its users to use their google accounts to login Zoho.com . Google is also working with the open source community to integrate OAuth and OpenID protocols via OAuth-enabled APIs such as Google Data APIs.

I think OpenID system will be the unique authentication way of the Internet; so if you have a website that require user login; OpenID is a must for you to support.