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According to a post over at the Digital Identity Forum, one of the things people most dislike about using the web is the plethora of passwords required to access all the highways and byways of the information superhighway (does anyone use that phrase anymore, or has it been upgraded to the information super-duber-highway?).

And if you look at all the password tollbooths needed to access all the various places on the info superhighway, it start to look more like driving the Garden State Parkway down to the Jersey Shore (which has something like a million tollbooths).

Enter OpenID, which, with a two-part authentication process, promises single-sign on across the web. The only problem is that at this point, across the web is not all that extensive at this point. But recently, both Yahoo and Blogger have joined the ranks of OpenID providers, which means you can use your Yahoo or Blogger passwords for those sites to log onto OpenID.

While it's still not complete, as neither site allows you to log on to their sites using OpenID, it's a start. Now if you could only remember your Yahoo password.

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