OpenID + DZone : Simple Account Registration

01 May 2007

Until now I didn’t actually have a DZone account.

However, I do have an OpenID identity.

OpenID + DZone == simple account registration. Creating a DZone account was as simple as entering my identity (from myOpenID) and giving DZone access to my identity. Quite painless and one less username I have to remember.

In my opinion, this is a direction that online (technically savvy) services should be going.

For it’s part, DZone seems to have created a basic account keyed off my open identity. It then prompted me to fill in additional information (email, password, etc.) to complete the registration.

I should note that this last step was not actually necessary. If all I wanted to do was log in and vote, I wouldn’t need to provide anything beyond the OpenID identity.

The only thing I can’t seem to do is change my full name?