OpenID finally starts taking off!
In the past week both Yahoo! and Blogger have made announcements about supporting OpenID. Not only support, but if you have a Yahoo! or Blogger id, you now have an OpenID as well. I’ve got to say: about time!
What’s an OpenID? Basically It’s a way of authenticating yourself on sites across the internet. Microsoft tried to do something similar with their passport system, but the only sites that ever utilized it were Microsoft sites. If you use an OpenID, people will know that the comment on that website is actually you, as opposed to someone who just typed your name in. It’s also nice being able to use one unique id across a bunch of sites instead of creating accounts everywhere you go.
My site’s been supporting OpenID for what must be a couple years now. You can comment using it, and I can comment other places and identify as makesitgood.net. It’s pretty cool. With this new surge of people that are now able to use it, I hope to see it take off and become popular.
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Comment by Benjamin D. Thomas — January 18, 2008 @ 10:51 am
OpenID is the new black. Help me, I’m looking for a new way to say “is the new”.
Essentially, so that I can say “_____________, is the new, ‘is the new.’” Any ideas?
Regardless, I’m happy. I have at least 9 OpenIDs at the moment, mainly because I wrote code to authenticate against it. I’ve found that some providers are very flaky.
Comment by Benjamin D. Thomas — January 18, 2008 @ 10:53 am
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Comment by Alex — January 20, 2008 @ 11:22 am
Whoops, thanks. Silly old plugins
Comment by Anonymous — January 22, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
Testing