The upper mentioned companies joined OpenID following the ideea that there should be an unique shareable database containing all the information of any user who ever registered on a website, portal, forum, etc.
The huge amount of private information would be stockpiled in an enormous database (why not mysql ?). If MySQL will be chosen to store the information i can only imagine what will that mean for Sun Microsystems, as we all know that now Sun practically owns MySQL.
Thinking that the enormous amount of information will be stored in a single place and that database that holds it will be queryied like millions of times per day leaves me with this question in mind: are we ready yet for such data processing ? Maybe. The ideea itself scares me as i think that if something might go wrong the consequences would be catastrophic for everyone.
Let us have a look at the good side of things though, as they will evolve very fast and this new technology would make our lifes a lot more easier. It could be possible that we already have an OpenID and don’t know it. If you are using the following services you already have one:
AOL- openid.aol.com/screenname
LiveDoor
- profile.livedoor.com/username
LiveJournal
- username.livejournal.com
Orange (France Telecom)
- http://openid.orange.fr/
SmugMug- username.smugmug.com
Technorati
- technorati.com/people/technorati/username
Vox- member.vox.com
WordPress.com- username.wordpress.com
If you don’t use the services mentioned above you can get an OpenID from myOpenID.com and in the meantime while you’re there find out more relevant information about OpenID.
I am looking forward to this matter and hope for the best.
I’m sure that you’ve found yourself at least one time browsing a website that had plenty of cool pictures you wanted to download (of course pictures are just a basic example as you can lay your hands on all kinds of files like mov, mpeg, mpg, avi, mp3, css, js, etc. that are include in that webpage). For example, yesterday i’ve found a cool webpage that had hundreds of cool userbars and buttons and i would have took me quite a lot of time to save all of those goodies on my hard-drive, so i took advantage of this great, free tool.
Shutterstock – sell your photos !
I’ve heard about this website one month ago and i think it’s a great opportunity to generate some revenue while you do what you like. If you take photos for a hobby you might want to check out Shutterstock.com as they help you sell your photos.
The program is quite simple. At first you just need to sign up and after you log into your account you can start uploading pictures. You can generate revenue from the simple fact that someone is downloading your pictures. At first your payout is $0.25 per photo but after you gain $500, a single photo download will then bring you $0.30.
It gets better and better as you can earn revenue not just by selling your photos but now you can reffer stock buyers and earn 20% of their subscription fee or you can reffer photographers and earn 3¢ for each of their download.
I think there’s nothing left for me to say just to wish you luck in generating as much revenue as you possible can.