Say Goodbye to Comment Spoofing: OpenID Goes Live on Blogger
Want proof OpenID is hot and poised to become the default way you login to most websites? Just two short weeks after announcing it would support OpenID, Blogger has already rolled out the new feature across all its blogs.
As we mentioned when this was first announced, the OpenID features on Blogger allow anyone with an OpenID-enabled service, such as WordPress.com, LiveJournal, AOL Journal, or AOL/AIM accounts, to leave authenticated comments on your blog using their existing OpenID identities.
Comments left of your blog by those signing in with their OpenID URL will display a small OpenID icon next to their name. The icon then links back to that person’s URL so you can verify their identity — which means you can say goodbye to comment spoofing.
In related news, for those that are following these early steps of the open social web, OAuth, a means for outside applications to authenticate with web services without the need for your username and password, is progressing rapidly as well.
OAuth Discovery is in the early draft stages but eventually it will enable partial and full automation of the OAuth protocol by using a machine-readable OAuth configuration documents. And to prove this isn’t just abstracts, there are already implementations available for Nouncer and Ma.gnolia with Twitter set to add support as well.
It’s far from fully functional, but the open version of the social web and the tools you use to interact with it are nearing critical mass and the adoption rate by web service providers continues to accelerate, which means before long the whole web will be your social network.
[via Chris Messina]
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