Monday, May 5, 2008

The Need For An Universal ID

i am starting to go crazy, trying to remember all my usernames and passwords for logging on to all the different social networks, forums, blogs, content sharing sites, etc.

why can't a blogspot blogger comment on a blog hosted on yahoo without having to register an yahoo account. why can't i use one login name and password for all powered by Discuz! forums. why in the world are we connected to 10 different social networks (FB, LinkedIn, twitter, etc., etc.) while our friends on each of these networks are the same anyways.

forgive me for not following the trend but i simply can't keep up. since web 2.0 keeps evolving and there is not one consistent platform that everyone chooses to use, can someone come up with a login application or ID management tool that can ease the pain?

2 comments:

brian koh said...

yo Kevin, there's www.openid.net

but i haven't really figured it out yet, but the main social media services offer it.

either way, i just use ONE userID and ONE password for everything..
hence if you crack my code.. i'm f***ed.

Kevin On said...

LOL. so it's either let someone crack into your accounts or forget your various IDs and passwords and not able to log into your own accounts. it seems that either way, we are f***ed...