Google is now an OpenID provider: Use your Google account to sign into any site that accepts OpenID

It appears that Google is now an OpenID provider, which means you can log into any site which allows OpenID logins using a Google account. This is a pretty big win for OpenID in terms of putting even more momentum behind the protocol. Of course the truth still holds - as said before - that "it doesn't matter if everybody and their brother is an OpenID provider, if nobody allows OpenID logins." But the number of sites that do accept OpenID appears to be growing and an endorsement by Google can't hurt in terms of encouraging others to move in that direction.

Unfortunately this blog itself doesn't actually support OpenID logins, which is something of a bummer. It'll be fun when we reach a point where we can go "self-hosted" using OpenQabal and use this blog as a place to play with some of the new and nifty stuff coming down the pipe. With some luck, that'll happen before the entropic heat death of the universe. <big-grin / >

Syndicated 2008-04-09 04:10:24 (Updated 2008-04-09 04:11:55) from openqabal