After allowing you to
authenticate your comments using an OpenID, Blogger is now
an OpenID provider. To use any of your blogs as an OpenID identity, you need to check "Enable OpenID for blogs" in
your Blogger profile (the feature is still experimental, so it's not added in the public release yet) and save the settings.
Blogger inserts this line in the head section of your template:
<link rel="openid.server" href="http://draft.blogger.com/openid-server.g" />so now you can use any of your blogs as an OpenID. Some simple things you can do with your OpenID are to
claim your blog at Technorati (you still need a Technorati account), sign in using your OpenID at
Plaxo,
Zoomr or post comments in a LiveJournal blog, like
Brad Fitzpatrick's blog. A small inconvenience is that Blogger uses the subdomain of your blog instead of your name.
Yesterday,
Yahoo announced it will support OpenID 2.0 (Blogger is a provider for OpenID 1.1), so the future is bright for this authentication system.
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lctkw said on January 18, 2008 3:54 AM PDT:
This is interesting.
However, with so many existing services moving to support OpenID, the original problem of having too many login accounts resurfaces - I have a LiveJournal, Yahoo and Blogger account, so I have more than enough OpenIDs to use. It would be great if there was some way to unify all these IDs, sort of a one ID to rule them all thing? Sounds a bit of a security risk, though.
As it is though, I find the practical applications of OpenID still somewhat limited... It's great to be able to comment on other blogs/services without having to register, but that's about as much use as I see for it right now.
domenico said on January 18, 2008 5:17 AM PDT:
since Blogger can work with Google Accounts we may say that Google is an OpenID provider
Kerub said on January 18, 2008 5:26 AM PDT:
but you need to be logged in blogspot, is not it?
so it would be difficult to use simultaneously more that a blogspot openid.
Armand said on January 18, 2008 6:27 AM PDT:
That's great but there are indeed many OpenID providers and yet very few sites that support OpenID for login.
Blogger does both, so +1 for Google.
Mike said on January 18, 2008 6:31 AM PDT:
lctkw , there's no overload - just more options. There's no need at all to utilize more than one OpenID (unless you want to) so you can just ignore the other providers.
elinfonet said on January 18, 2008 6:01 PM PDT:
Opino más o menos lo mismo que lctkw.
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i think it will increase competition between yahoo and google
chep said on January 19, 2008 6:19 AM PDT:
That's great! let's try how it works first of all writing a comment here.
hehehehe
guldook said on January 20, 2008 5:02 PM PDT:
Great, but I want also a delegation function.
e-Apwn said on January 22, 2008 6:58 AM PDT:
What exactly is an Open ID Blogger and an open ID provider?
thank you.
I stumbled upon this page looking for details how to find or create themes and backgrounds for my personal blog...
I'll test it here as well.
yeowthong said on April 13, 2008 3:52 PM PDT:
Cool
hello, i want to ask something...!!!
in my edit profile there's no "enable openID for blog".
can you tell me how it can happen.
there just a new task "show my blog".
Cath said on April 13, 2009 4:28 PM PDT:
Yes, this advice seems to have stopped working.
upcracky said on April 15, 2009 5:58 PM PDT:
I'm trying to figure out if openid is working. There needs to be a place you can connect to get an unambiguous yes or no.
blog said on May 1, 2009 9:13 PM PDT:
I love this except that I switched my blog to a subdomain on my site... now it simply shows up as "blog".
Ganesh said on May 13, 2009 9:29 AM PDT:
In my site there is no option called enable open id for blogs....what should i do?
Sam said on May 13, 2009 10:59 AM PDT:
Go to "draft.blogger.com"
vbutoianu said on October 29, 2009 2:31 AM PDT:
does Blogger Open is Support the extensions feature to retrieve the users' personal information: nickname, fullname, email, etc?
