It has been a hassle to create all the accounts and now it is hard to remember all those credentials. Did you signup on xyz.com with your favorite username "neo" or was it taken and you took "neo88"? And what was the password again?
The smart folks at the OpenID Foundation created a solution for this problem. You log into the account at your favorite identity provider (only once!) and afterwards you can easily use other services across the web without another login. You can find out more about OpenID on the official website or Wikipedia.
Tagcrumbs supports OpenID now. You can create a new Tagcrumbs account by logging in with your OpenID provider or you can couple your existing Tagcrumbs account with an OpenID provider of your choice.
Let's say you don't have a Tagcrumbs account yet but you already have a Google account for Gmail or any other Google service. On the login screen, you would click on the Google logo to login with your existing Google account.
You will have to verify that you allow Tagcrumbs to use your Google account for login purposes and you are basically done. You now have a new Tagcrumbs account that's coupled with your Google Account.
You don't have to remember a new password or username to log into Tagcrumbs again. The next time, you just click on the Google logo again and you will be logged into Tagcrumbs with your account.
It can hardly get any easier than this! We see Tagcrumbs as an extension to other existing services, that's also why we don't have a built-in messaging system between users. You can write a message to your friends on any other social network. We want to provide the place-related part that is missing on other social networks. Making the signup and login process as easy as possible therefore makes a lot of sense to us.
You can also use Facebook Connect to create a new Tagcrumbs account, but this will be part of another post in the future.
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