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Blogger Tests OpenID Support
By Martin English | December 3, 2007
Blogger in Draft (a pre-release version of Blogger) has added the option to comment using an OpenID. The purpose of OpenID is to allow you to use a single account to sign in to multiple sites without worrying about passwords.
Some important companies and sites that provide OpenIDs: AOL, Orange, WordPress, Six Apart and others. If you have an account at any of these sites, you also have an OpenID.
However, it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, there are still very few important sites that let you authenticate using an OpenID. Hopefully, Google’s involvement will help spur this along. In the meantime, there is a list of sites that you can use your OpenID with. You might want to try out Ma.gnolia.com for bookmarks, Zooomr.com for photo sharing or stikis for creating Web based sticky notes,
Jumbodir for file sharing.
OpenID Enabled provides resources for OpenID software development.
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