Blogger Now an OpenID Provider
Blogger January 18th, 2008 - By Haochi
When Blogger enabled OpenID commenting on Blogger blogs, they hinted on their blog that they are working to become an OpenID provider. Today, they announced that Blogger users can now use their own blog URL as an OpenID identity. Since this new feature is still experimental, you will need to enable it in Blogger Draft, under Edit Profile. When enabled, Google will add the following code to ALL your blogs, which means that you can use any of your (public) Blogger blogs as an OpenID identity.
<link rel=”openid.server” href=”http://draft.blogger.com/openid-server.g” />
Yahoo! announced yesterday that they will be supporting OpenID beginning the 30th of this month.
[via Google Operating System]
June 10th, 2008 at 2:13 am
We don’t need more OpenID *providers*, we need Yahoo and every other site to *authenticate* against OpenID, so you can make comments without having to sign up and create a username on yet-another-bloody-site. Blogger got it right and can authenticate against *OpenID*, but Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, and the thousands of forums and bulletin boards out there still make you sign up.