Google Blogger goes OpenID as well…

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January 19, 2008

Soon after Yahoo announced they are going to support OpenID logins by end of this month, Google Blogger have become an OpenID provider them selves in the Draft program which anyone can apply to, thus beating Yahoo in live implementation. By checking the new option box in your blogger account, your blogger url will be your OpenID account. That simple, that would bring hundreds of thousands of users pretty quick, but with their OpenID tied to something.blogger.com I’m not sure practical that would be, but I personally prefer not to use blogger account as my OpenID account. I like them separated for future free of movement. It’s more trivial to use the name.myopenid.com to me.

Regardless though, the move is definitely another strong push for OpenID. I can really say now, it’s going to happen. One account for all. It would be years ahead a typical question. “How come you don’t suppor OpenID? Why do I need a new account?”. It’s like going to a shop who dones’t have POS for card payments.

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When will wordpress allow us to comment using OpenID? I don’t want to be filling forms everytime I comment on a blog :/

Comment by 3baid on January 19, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

3baid: Actually they do.

Comment by Bashar on January 19, 2008 @ 4:46 pm

So maybe I should start implementing it :).

Comment by Bashar on January 19, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

here are instructions on how to set up blogger to accept OpenId in comments:

http://phydeaux3.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-openid-for-blogger-comments.html

Comment by Don Veto on January 19, 2008 @ 5:19 pm

Not as a plugin, but as standard (on wordpress and hosted blogs)

Comment by 3baid on January 19, 2008 @ 6:39 pm

3baid: in time, I bet it will be. Just like a hotel does not accept cash sometimes :)

Comment by Bashar on January 20, 2008 @ 12:14 am

Don Veto: Thanks for the link!

Comment by Bashar on January 20, 2008 @ 12:15 am

This is pretty awesome, 2008 shall be the year of OpenID.

The thing is, if you host OpenID through any provider, it will be tied up to them — blogger, Yahoo, whoever. Though what’s important here is that the large audience of those providers will encourage OpenID adaptation by everybody else, which in turn allows you to use your self-hosted OpenID in more places.

Comment by Tony on January 20, 2008 @ 5:21 am

Tony: If it pushes OpenID further, OK let it be then :)

Comment by Bashar on January 23, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
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