“I can’t see how players like Google won’t follow this move as well.”

Blogger already supports Openid and I find it really useful. I can leave comments on a blogger hosted blog using my wordpress ID. So, yay!

BTW, I agree spam bots suck at math, but what if I even I do? :)

Comment by Anaamica — January 17, 2008 @ 1:50 pm

I am a spam bot. Just wanted to say that it is good to see that yahoo is at last doing this.

Comment by Niyaz PK — January 17, 2008 @ 1:54 pm

Well, you did manage to comment, so I guess you rock at math ;-)

About blogger: yup, its great that you’re able to use OpenId on blogger, but my point on the post was that it makes sense for Google as a whole to implement and provide OpenID to its users. Actually, I imagine it’s part of their strategy and they are probably getting ready to roll out their response to this announcement. There’s Google people involved (and quite active) in the OpenID development community, so I think it’s a matter of time.

Comment by Fred Oliveira — January 17, 2008 @ 1:54 pm

Awesome news. Get the major players to open their accounts as OpenID providers and let’s get some consumers up! The entire world should only _need_ a handful of providers (maybe 2). I think it’s high time to get more and more consumers everywhere. And more than just blogs accepting comments. Word up to Ma.gnolia! A great example of a great consumer.

Comment by André Luís — January 17, 2008 @ 3:54 pm

“Since you can effectively “carry” your personal identity between providers and transparently change providers if you think you can’t trust your current one …”

If I understand OpenID correctly, isn’t your identity a URI? So if you switched providers, your identity would change because your URI would change.

Comment by Chris Peters — January 17, 2008 @ 4:13 pm

Chris,

for that, there’s delegation. You can have your own URI (for example, your website or blog) in which you specify (in link elements inside the head of the document) your active provider. You can then switch to other providers and keep the same identity URI everywhere. (click my name for an example)

For less savvy users, the consumers should allow more than one provider URI attached to each account. Ma.gnolia allows me to attach several OpenIDs to the same account, which is great.

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Great news. Truly a important and necessary step to easily deliver an OpenID for everyone. But I have that kind of feeling that everyone is still somewhat waiting for Google to tag along.

(And btw a cool and stable OpenID server would be good also…)

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Yay for dataportability.org! It’s time Yahoo did *something* in keeping with the times!

Comment by Miranda — January 23, 2008 @ 2:19 am

This is great, OpenID is the right way to go. We just launched another inSuggest service, and are now evaluating if OpenID should be something we will integrate in the future. So for us, we are also looking forward to what Google will do about this…

Comment by inSuggest — February 7, 2008 @ 9:50 pm