I thought it was about time I installed an OpenID wordpress plugin for my blog and give it a whirl. So I dumped it on my server and activated it and proceeded to login using myopenid.com account (it's easier to remember than my pip.verisignlabs.com one and I forget my livejournal password… So in doing so my blog redirects to myopenid.com and I login and fill in a persona. Hit share forever or whatever its called and wham.

Bugs. Something about not being about to insert into the database. nonces.
Tried the Options/OpenID and get nothing through the admin interface. Something to look at another day.

Enter Cardspace and the Firefox xmldap.org CardSpace identity selector. I install, restart Firefox and head to Microsofts own CardSpace sandbox only for the window to flash and not much else happen. Next I headed to Kim Cameron's Identity weblog and logged in successfully.

After I've installed IE7 I'll try the sandbox again.

From what I've seen, thus far I'm not impressed with any of these systems. A lot of work still to be done. For starters who wants to type http://<yourname>.myopenid.com/ into a login box over and over even without the schema? Gah! (Are you listening Jason?) Gimme an i-name any day(if only), and as for CardSpace, well I'm coming around to the simplicity and supposedly secure space it runs on, yet it in no way meets my expectations. More on that another day.

For now I'm happy that I had at least one success!

What using all these services has highlighted for me is just how User Experience is vital to my wanting to use(and build) these services.

On that note, go and sign up here, like I have and help out. There's been interesting discussions on the logo, which sucks at 16×16 and every other size.

My pre-requesites for an identity logo; must be clearly distinguishable in monochrome. Think Apple. Think Technorati.