TypePad and (Finally) OpenID

Six Apart has finally released good OpenID support for TypePad. This means that if you’d like to comment here, you can sign in using any other account you’d like rather than having to create and remember a password with TypePad. When commenting, choose “Sign in with…” and select “OpenID”. Then, just enter in most any other blog or account you have, like the address to your LiveJournal, Vox page, openid.aol.com/yourAOLscreenName, etc. They seem to have some other nice comment tracking features I haven’t played with yet, too.

Also they seem to have figured out how to pass OpenIDs through domain mapping transparently, so I can use david.ely.fm as my OpenID and it figures out for itself that it’s a TypePad-authenticated OpenID. Neat.

Movable Type: OpenID: Built In With MT4

Movable Type: OpenID: Built In With MT4

We Are Opening the Social Graph

We Are Opening the Social Graph

Post from Six Apart about how they’re using Microformats and OpenID to make it easier to describe who your friends are and control your privacy.

Movable Type Supports OpenID

The new version of Movable Type has built-in support for OpenID commenting, which is great. I like the approach of presenting people with familiar icons to communicate the idea that the already have OpenIDs, and being able to hide all but the username and fill in the rest, they don’t even need to know that they’re using an OpenID. I’d like to see TypePad and Vox (and Blogger) add in OpenID support like this, too.

A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site

A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site

I have no use for Plaxo, but it's neat to see them using OpenID, as they've been untrustworthy in the past and OpenID means you don't have to give them a password.

The Future of OpenID (a slidecast)

The Future of OpenID (a slidecast)

A little tech-y at times depending on your level of interest, but a great presentation.

OpenID: Too Many Providers, Not Enough Consumers

OpenID: Too many providers, not enough consumers

I’d especially like to be able to log in to forums and bulletin boards with my OpenID, because I hate having to make accounts all over the place and because I like knowing that any comments left by me are verifiable as having been left by me.

Microsoft to Support OpenID

Microsoft to Support OpenID

TypePad and OpenID

I don’t imagine it’s high on their priority list, but it’d be nice if Six Apart would add OpenID pointers to the default TypePad headers. Every TypePad user automatically gets (I think), a TypeKey identity at http://profile.typekey.com/username, and TypeKey profiles all include OpenID identities. If TypePad pages all had a delegation to TypeKey, they’d join LiveJournal and Vox (also Six Apart products, LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick having invented OpenID in the first place) in offering OpenIDs for all their users.

At present, if you’re already logged into TypeKey and want to comment on a TypeKey-enabled blog, all you have to do to sign in is click the sign in link. Then, if you want to enter your URL to be displayed with your name in the comment, you type that in when you type in your comment. Switching to OpenID would be exactly the same process, except that you type in your URL before clicking “sign in” instead of after.

What I’m getting at here is that, since I’d wager a large amount of TypeKey’s and TypePad’s users overlap, and since TypeKey profiles are OpenID profiles, OpenID could replace TypeKey without anyone missing anything. Anyone with a TypePad page would log in using their TypePad URL, and any other TypeKey users could just log in using their TypeKey profile as their OpenID, if they don’t have another one. My present comment form allows OpenID or TypeKey authentication, but it seems somewhat redundant. I’d like to remove the TypeKey thunk, but I don’t want to scare off all the TypePad users who are used to it (not that I get many comments).

Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers

Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers

Some good little tips.

OpenID's Growing Momentum

OpenID’s Growing Momentum

OpenID is very handy. Only one login/password to worry about, and you get to choose who you trust enough with that information.

Technorati Weblog: Blog Claiming with OpenId

Technorati Weblog: Blog Claiming with OpenId

I don’t have much use for Technorati, but it’s good to see another big name supporting OpenID.

OpenID Server

Very cool: OpenID Server for Movable Type. Just drop it in your Movable Type plugins directory, add one line to your main page’s header, and you can log into any OpenID-enabled site using your own identity, if you don’t have or want to use a TypeKey, LiveJournal, or Vox account.

I’m now accepting comment logins using OpenID, so if you are running your own OpenID server, or have a Vox or LiveJournal account, you can use those identities when you comment (or keep using TypeKey). If you’re already logged in at Vox or LJ, just type in username.vox.com or username.livejournal.com, and the backend will check with that site to make sure you are who you say you are without any need to enter a password.