Digital ID Coach

Verisign Labs offers a beta version of Personal Identity Portal (PIP) to “manage your online identity without compromising your privacy.” Verisign, the mother ship, offers SSL certificates to make sure web sites have appropriate trust credentials. With PIP, Verisign is also boosting their “trust” model: use your PIP identity to access web sites, protect your identity, and share your profile data.

Using PIP

First, create an account with PIP. As with other identity providers, your user name becomes part of your OpenID. This account is like others: you’ll need a user name and password.

PIP offers a Firefox plugin that makes signing in to certain sites easy. Verisign says the “sites include Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, and many major retailers.” (Amusingly, they call it an OpenID Seatbelt. Huh? Keeping me safe in my chair?) The plugin remembers your user name, but you’ll need to provide the password when you use it.

PIP lets you create your own identity page(s). When you’re done, PIP allows you to see your OpenID page with a carousel of your various sites:

In the Help and Support area, there’s a video on setting up your personal identity page. (These guys didn’t make it easy to find more information about their service. They have an FAQ and more videos about how one click (a password manager) works in the Help and Support area.)

Once you’ve set up your various services, you have a nice carousel that people can flip through and click on to visit that site.

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