This post is in response to this comment on my blog (because I have no idea who that is :-). Here's my suggestion on how to get the most out of your OpenID.

1. Get yourself an identity provider.
   I recommend using a pre-existing service rather than setting up your own. You can use AOL, Verisign (PIP), MyOpenID and a whole host of others.
2. Edit your preferred blog or home page to configure it for delegation.
3. When you sign into web apps, use your URL, not the URL from your provider.

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http://jyte.com/: it's kinda fun: you sign in with your OpenID and make claims about things (doesn't matter what) and vote on those claims. You can also give credit to other people, join and create groups and record contacts and relationships.

Sounds pretty standard, but what I find interesting is that there are a set of APIs for querying group membership. This could potentially allow an application to restrict access to an invitation-only group defined on jyte, and then only people who are members of those groups will be allowed through.

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For those that are only casually following OpenID, this fairly huge news means that all AOL user accounts are now OpenID enabled.