This is a gallery of innovative signin and registration experiences that leverage user managed identity - enabling folks use existing accounts with one organization to authenticate on other websites. There are a variety of user interface approaches that make the most of this capability, the following are just a few examples. We'd love to hear your thoughts on what works and how organizations could make the experience even better. To leave feedback, please visit our idea forum.

Sears

Sears.com uses an innovative lightbox overlay that allows the user to choose between a legacy username/password option or to use an existing OpenID-enabled account from Yahoo, Google, AOL, and myspace as well as offerings from Facebook and Twitter.

Get Satisfaction

Get Satisfaction, a community-powered support platform, presents a simple overlay and allows users to cycle between tabs to login with their preferred method. This is a hybrid solution where Get Satisfaction created the user interface layer and the back end functionality is provided by Janrain's RPX service.

Fox News

Fox News asks readers to register on the site with an OpenID before they leave a comment on an article. They have chosen to use small favicons to select the preferred identity providers.

myKmart

MyKmart accepts OpenIDs for registration and login on its community website, using a sleek lightbox overlay

UserVoice

Citysearch embedded UserVoice's customer feedback platform into their website. UserVoice has integrated Janrain's RPX iFrame into the registration/login page.

Qype

QYPE is the Citysearch of Europe and has deployed a similar third party registration approach to Uservoice.

Explore.org

CastRoller

UserVoice, Qype, Explore.org and CastRoller all recommend OpenID as a preferred sign-in option, but also allow users to login with their traditional username and password

WhitePages

WhitePages presents large buttons for OpenID providers like Google and Yahoo!, making it easy to create a new account

Interscope

Universal Music Group presents OpenID as the prominent option for users to register or login, but also allows visitors to register with an email address.

LA Times

The Los Angeles Times asks visitors to register with an OpenID or other social networking account. In addition, they are promoting registration by offering a lottery to win a gift card.

StackOverflow

StackOverflow combines a button-based interface for sign-in with the option for users to enter their OpenID URL

Tungle

Tungle, an online scheduling service, lets visitors sign-in via an existing OpenID, and has also presented a button specifically for Google Apps users

Avro

Avro, a Dutch public broadcaster, uses an innovative lightbox overlay to allow users to select between OpenID or a traditional username/password for sign-in

Ficly

http://ficly.com/

Friendfeed

Friendfeed uses OpenID Connect to provide one-click sign up and contact import.

http://friendfeed.com

Aardvark

Aardvark uses an interesting full-width lightbox technique to draw attention to the signin form.

http://vark.com

Colorhat

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Bragster

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