I am proud to announce that as of today, RealMee has joined the growing list of parties that support the OpenID movement. OpenID is a free and easy way to use your digital identity across the Internet. This software framework fits perfectly in our vision of an Open Web.
Today, RealMee has become an OpenID provider which means you can use your personal RealMee URL – typically www.realmee.com/number/your-name – to subscribe for or login to other websites that support OpenID. This means you need just one username and password to create your profile at RealMee which will let you use that identity across the Web. Simple and safe! And it works with personal domains (e.g. www.yourname.com) attached to RealMee as well.
We haven’t become an OpenID relying party – accepting other OpenID’s to create an account at or login to RealMee – (yet) because that would make less sense for a service such as RealMee that aims to be one of the central identity providers of people worldwide.
Please note that OpenID is still in the adoption phase and is becoming more and more popular, as large organizations like AOL, Microsoft, Sun, Novell, etc. begin to accept and provide OpenIDs. Today it is estimated that there are over 160-million OpenID enabled URIs with nearly ten-thousand sites supporting OpenID logins.
