Internet ID – There should be only one

I am Biomehanika ! (but only on some sites...)

How many different logins and User IDs do you have?
I have at least 10 which I use at least once a week + a long list of accounts which I needed to create on somebody else's forum to access a service which I no longer use.

But how many do I need?

My Windows Live ID will let me onto all MS sites.
My Google Login, will let me login into a large selection as well (including Blogger).
A Yahoo login also gives me access to Flickr.
Those three get me into over half of the sites which I access.
But can that be improved on?

Microsft have just made a feature available which could help, which means that any Website can sign-up and let people use their Windows Live IDs to login.

- Dan Wahlin's Weblog shows how.

If the other big companies followed suit and a website had the option to for you to use any of them, you could potential use your preferred ID for all websites.

Could there be just one?

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