• BBC, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11 AM

The OpenID project aims to make surfing the Net easier by giving everyone a single ID they can use to access all their sites. MySpace is its newest member.

"All this will tie together to make it more useful for MySpace users to have MySpace accounts even when they're not on MySpace," said Jim Benedetto, the company's senior vice president of technology.

But the News Corp. social network, which has more than 100 million members, isn't exactly diving in head first. MySpace has set restrictions on where the login details can be used based on whether those sites create or accept OpenID profiles. It will only allow MySpace details to be used to get access to what are known as "relying parties" -- organizations that accept, rather than create, the portable identities, such as Plaxo.

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