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…
Will Google or Blogger be a OpenID provider when OpenID commenting become more mature?
From the announcement:
congratulationisms!!
we just
pushed this to production, so it’s now
available to all blogger users. sweet!
Congrats on going live with this feature. Exciting news for OpenID…
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!
Congratulations! This is a very important step. The next one may be make any Google Account an OpenId URL…
Silvio Eberardo
Thanks for your help with this, Ryan! I posted a wee writeup about it too.
Sounds like a good thing to do… making it easier for people without blogger accounts, etc.
It’s a great solutions to comment on Blogger using OpenID account.
If they could make google an openID that would be swell!
they did!
Frankly speaking I just getting to know about OpenID recently and am not having any account yet. It’s a wonderful way to make comment in one account. Thanks for taking it to my attention
Thank you very much….