Hello everyone;
I’ve just enabled OpenID identification for those few of you who have it. More to the point, all registered Club Troppo users now have OpenID identifiers of the form:
http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/author/your_user_name_goes_here
This will allow you to login to OpenID sites without having to set up a new account each time.
What is OpenID? A simple method for sites to authenticate users without maintaining multiple logins. It’s a little hard to explain, but the OpenID site does an OK job.
I would be happy to lend a hand to other Australian sites who wish to OpenID-enable their Wordpress installations.
Congrats on OpenID enabling clubtroppo.com.au!
Helping other folks OpenID enable is a great idea. We’re starting some events to help users and developers get together to learn more about OpenID. You can read more about it here:
http://mashpit.pbwiki.com/MashPitOpenid
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We love big brother.
Yobbo;
OpenID is a part of a larger project cam and I are kicking about regarding inter-blog systems. Stay tuned.
I’m assuming this is designed to prevent your blog being taken off-line/destroyed by spam? It nearly happened to LP today, and is why Catallaxy moved to registration.
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The idea is that only one account needs to be maintained which can authenticate at other sites.
So if Catallaxy had an OpenID service, users from Catallaxy can use their account there to authenticate themselves here and vice versa.
Rather than having to maintain lots of different accounts, only one identity is really necessary. You can also get OpenIDs from third party ident services.
On a completely unrelated note, when’s the next missing link coming out?