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20% project: OpenID comments in Blogger

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 [comments (9)] [history] [rdf] [raw]

I've been working on adding OpenID support inside Google as a 20% project for a while now. It took some evangelizing, but our first OpenID project, commenting in Blogger, has finally launched!

For the OpenID geeks out there, we've turned Blogger into a consumer, aka relying party. It has full support for 1.0 and 1.1, and partial support for 2.0 draft 12. (It's missing XRI-based discovery.)

OpenID commenting is currently supported in Blogger Draft, ie beta, but we'll roll it out to all users soon. Keep an eye out for future OpenID projects...

Haochi Chen, Mon 03 Dec 2007

Will Google or Blogger be a OpenID provider when OpenID commenting become more mature?

ryan, Mon 03 Dec 2007

From the announcement:

We're also working on functionality to let Blogger's URLs (both Blog*Spot and custom domains) be used for commenting elsewhere on the web.

Maulik, Mon 03 Dec 2007

congratulationisms!!

ryan, Fri 14 Dec 2007

we just pushed this to production, so it's now available to all blogger users. sweet!

http://www.beenverified.com/joshlevy, Fri 14 Dec 2007

Congrats on going live with this feature. Exciting news for OpenID...

Anil Dash, Mon 17 Dec 2007

I gotta say, seeing TypeKey on there makes me feel like somebody finally understood, after all these years, what the hell we were trying to do with that. :) Thanks for the great work!

Silvio E berardo, Wed 19 Dec 2007

Congratulations! This is a very important step. The next one may be make any Google Account an OpenId URL...

Silvio Eberardo

Eric, Wed 02 Apr 2008

Thanks for your help with this, Ryan! I posted a wee writeup about it too.

KG Lew, Fri 18 Jul 2008

Sounds like a good thing to do... making it easier for people without blogger accounts, etc.