Based on discussions I've been reading in my social networking feeds I've decided to get on the OpenID bandwagon, mainly because I don't want someone else to steal my user name that I always use of 'jthake' ;-) It's my branding!
There are heaps of sites already supporting OpenID which can be seen at the OpenID Directory.
WikiTravel
On my travels I found wikitravel.org and decided to check out my home town of Perth, Western Australia. Good to see how much content is in there! And it even mentions the worlds best pub...Little Creatures in Fremantle! "Mine's a pint of pils!"
OpenID Blogs
Anoather great addition is the fact that there are some many subject based blogs out there which support OpenID so you can go and submit articles there.
Poking about
There's also some not so useful, "poke" like apps out there such as "I make Mistakes". I guess it's very similar to facebook in terms of having one registration but access to multiple apps, it's just they are not all in one walled garden like facebook.
Google OpenSocial
Google's rumoured OpenSocial has been released although the link on the Zdnet article gives a 404 error. I'm dubious to the information based on this. But if so it's a hard facebook killer if MySpace and LinkedIn get on board and share their connections.
OpenID and SharePoint
Another great plug in for OpenID is to allow users to login and add comments on WordPress blogs with their OpenID. Very very awesome! This is very much like Windows Live and where they are going. Angus Logan is the guy making the biggest noise about this after making serious noise around SharePoint from Sydney last year. Now I'm sure if they can release an WIndows Live authentication for SharePoint, they can create an OpenID one too...guys?
There is a CodePlex project called DNOpenID that looks like it could be used as a provider for SharePoint.
Social Graph
I guess it does lead into the direction Brad Fitz was getting to around a Social Graph for all application platforms to see connections for all your apps such as facebook, myspace, linkedIn without having to add the same person to each app.