BloggingNotes Now Supports OpenID
May 21, 2008
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If you’ve never heard of OpenID you could be forgiven. However, the concept of what OpenID is used for is hardly new. It’s a universal login - similar to what the Microsoft Passport system was supposed to be like.
Now, assuming that you haven’t already clicked on the Back button, let me explain that OpenID is *not* Passport. First of all, it’s not a Microsoft product, it’s an open source project, with a large number of sites available to register your own OpenID.
One of the best things that you can do with OpenID, though, is to add a snippet of code to your website which will then allow you to use your URL as your OpenID. For example, my ‘official’ OpenID is rodtempleton.myopenid.com, but I’ve put the code into the header file here on BloggingNotes that will allow me to use the URL bloggingnotes.net as my login on any site that supports OpenID.
And BloggingNotes itself also supports OpenID, so if you’re going to leave a comment on a post, you can login with your own OpenID and if your OpenID provider provides a name and email, those values will be filled in automatically.
There are even directories of sites which already support OpenID which you should definitely check out.
The one problem that OpenID has, at this point at least, is a lack of widespread use. Until sites such as del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, etc. get on-board, it’ll be a very useful, but still niche application. However, it doesn’t cost you anything to run it, and if it makes things a little easier for your readers, isn’t that worth taking the five minutes to set up the plug-in?
If you already use OpenID, you’re more than welcome to use it for commenting here. Hopefully you’ve found that the concept of a universal login is just what you’ve been looking for.
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:51 am
I was hoping OpenID would catch on more. I mean the theory behind that and Passport is great. I only have to have 1 log in for any site I log into? that would be awesome. But then it could be a security thing too if someone finds out your login credentials right?
I was looking at PHP’s LDAP class. It allows me to use PHP to access an Active Directory and authenticate against it. At work it would be useful for the multiple intranet sites I maintain.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Ya know, I opened one a while back and forgot about it. I should re-check that now and see bout adding it to the blog.
Awesome reminder, thanks!
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