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OpenID for Google Accounts. Google App Engine integrates with Google’s user accounts, so Ryan Barrett (of Google) used it to build an idproxy.net style OpenID provider.

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6 comments

  1. Yeah, it looks OK.

    Henrik Lied - 9th April 2008 05:20 - #

  2. Gah, YetAnotherOpenID - I must have three times as many OpenIDs as I do sites to use them on!

    When will the big guns - like Wikipedia, Slashdot, Flickr or somewhere else I've heard of start consuming OpenIDs? Livejournal aside, I've never heard of 95% of the sites listed in the directories, but almost every big-name site now gives me another OpenID I could use - not exactly useful when I have one already.

    Andy Allan - 9th April 2008 09:05 - #

  3. i dont understand and i dont get it what is openID

    floraly popa - 9th April 2008 12:58 - #

  4. Have to agree with Andy here - I get the feeling that the sites are all implementing the "easy bit" and then sitting on their laurels.

    The paranoid theory would be that the large commercial players may be worried about the effect of people being able to log into their own systems with an ID that they don't control; or alternatively, can't accept the idea that they are not the OpenID provider for their own users.

    Regarding Wikipedia, OpenID support has existed in MediaWiki for quite a while, thanks to Evan Prodromou of Wikitravel - it's just not installed for Wikipedia. The WP techs are currently putting a lot of work into getting single sign-on across all the Wikimedia Foundation sites working; I would hope that enabling OpenID would be the next step.

    Earle Martin - 9th April 2008 17:51 - #

  5. Andy, the big-name sites will start consuming OpenIDs when they start losing customers to smaller sites that do. Why not share your photos on my site, OurDoings, and move your bookmarks from delicious to magnolia?

    Bruce Lewis - 9th April 2008 19:08 - #

  6. Wow, one of those test spams ("f" by "google's openid") used my identity URL as "their website". Nasty.

    Earle Martin - 12th April 2008 13:29 - #

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