We like to be on the bleeding edge here at EdinburghMenus.com. That’s why we’re proud to announce that as of today it’s possible to sign up to EdinburghMenus.com with an OpenID.

OpenID is a “decentralized single sign-on system”. Essentially, this means that you sign up once with one of the many OpenID providers, and then you can sign up to OpenID-enabled sites (like EdinburghMenus.com) without having to fill out registration information again and create another username and password that you need to remember. When you return to an OpenID-enabled site that you are a member of, you just sign in using your OpenID URL.

When you sign up to EdinburghMenus.com using your OpenID, we automatically lift personal information from your OpenID account that you are happy to share with us such as your real name, gender, post code and date of birth. It is completely optional to supply this information - we only need you to share your email address and nickname (which will become your username on our site) but any extra information you do share with us will be used to make the EdinburghMenus.com experience all the more amazing.

Although you may have never heard of OpenID before, you may already have one — if you already have an account with AOL, Wordpress, LiveJournal or Technorati you’re good to go. The official OpenID page has more information on this.

It’s all very clever. Only time will tell if it’s really going to take off, but we certainly want to be able say we were there near the start if it does!

If you have already joined EdinburghMenus.com in the old fashioned way and want to assign your OpenID to your account, you can do that in your account settings.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 and is filed under development, technical.
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