Long awaited German OpenID Provider has launched
Referring to Google Trends the most active international community on the topic “OpenID” are russians, followed by japanese and polish people. English is No. 4 and german resides on No. 7. Anyway we see an ongoing discussion about OpenID here in germany getting stronger every day.
What´s missing at the moment are not only OpenID enabled sites in german language but also a german OpenID Provider. At least that was the case before MeinGuter.Name started its service yesterday.
MeinGuter.Name means “my good name” and aims not only on providing free and secure OpenIDs, but also to combine them with reputation management. That´s why it makes sense to use your real name as an OpenID, like e.g. I did with thomas.huhn.meinguter.name.
A lot of features are announced and the first one, called “egosurfing” can already bee tested with the initial launch. Egosurfing means that MeinGuter.Name tries to find links about you on the web by using the data you provided to the service (full name, nickname etc.). If you´re somewhat active on the web, the results are astounding.
The results are not presented on your personal OpenID page without your permission, you have to acknowledge every link before it is published.
Every time you login new links are searched and presented to you. That way you can document your ongoing work on your identity page and give people a better impression about yourself than just describing yourself with your own words (which you can do additionally).
An additional foto (not included in the OpenID 1.1 specs) helps you figuring out who is the guy behind the words. Every aspect of your data can be switched on and off as you like.
