Blogger Now OpenID Provider Too

I wrote a while ago about the changes to commenting on Google’s Blogger platform which allowed people to leave comments using an existing OpenID. Now Blogger has finally become an OpenID provider themselves which makes them another high profile backer of the OpenID concept which lets computer users have a single secure and decentralised login name and password for use on a growing number of compatible sites.

Where to get an OpenID

Yahoo’s recent OpenID announcement 

 

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Blogger Commenting Changes Again

Commenting on blogs outside of your chosen host can sometimes be a frustrating business. Blogger has certainly been testing my patience lately. I used to be able, where the blog owner had allowed, to leave comments linked back to my WordPress blog and then it changed again and I could only comment anonymously or via my Google login which linked back to a previous defunct blog hosted on Blogger that I used to post to. Now finally (again only where the blog owner has allowed) I can comment on Blogger from a narrow clutch of different blog or other Internet identities including WordPress with the ability to use my openID login if required. Thanks Blogger, it’s good too see you realise that many of us want to comment on and receive comments from blogs hosted on platforms other than our own chosen blog host though this is more restrictive than an option that had been in place previously.

I hope other blogging and social networking sites continue to allow a greater degree of comment transparency.

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