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Sign in with OpenID
Everyone’s talking about OpenID right now. Whether it’s going to develop into the solution for single sign-on across the web remains to be seen; but it’s certainly getting its chance, with adoption by a lot of significant companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AOL. What’s interesting, and different to many other schemes in the past, is that it also seems to have significant support at grassroots level, as demonstrated by its use at sites such as digg, Jyte, Ma.gnolia, and the likes.
In that vein, I’ve added support for signing in with an OpenID to UsableType. It doesn’t mean much right now and simply allows you to comment under the guise of your OpenID (thereby proving your identity of course), which in turn ensures your comments are whitelisted in the future.
If you don’t have an OpenID, or want to learn more about it, I would recommend having a look at Simon Willison’s OpenID screencast, which really helped me grok the concept when I first looked into it.
Comments:
Fair point, Jonathan. :)
I guess all it proves is ownership of that URL. But of course if I know that URL and the owner of it, then it does prove it is them.
How did you do the OpenID sign-in for this page? Technically speaking.
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On 30 May 07
Jonathan said:
I claim first OpenID post!
BTW, it's not really true that OpenID proves your identity any more than an email address does. It <em>could</em> do (and myopenid.com now allows the use of certificates I see) but right now I could be anyone. Really.