Source Log in to websites with your site's URL as your OpenID
A few years ago, Martin covered OpenID, an open authentication system. Since then, it has become increasingly popular and a wide range of sites, from AOL to LiveJournal provide OpenIDs, and OpenID login is also quite common. OpenID is particularly popular for blog comments, with Blogger now integrating support for it.
An OpenID is an URL. However, using an URL like Joe Anderson to log-in and post comments with just doesn't look sophisticated. I much prefer to use my own blog's URL to post comments and log-in; it pumps traffic to my blog and frankly just looks better.
Whilst you could run your own OpenID identity server to do this, this takes quite a bit of expertise to set-up and whilst it is probably more secure, it isn't needed in my opinion.
A few years ago, Martin covered OpenID, an open authentication system. Since then, it has become increasingly popular and a wide range of sites, from AOL to LiveJournal provide OpenIDs, and OpenID login is also quite common. OpenID is particularly popular for blog comments, with Blogger now integrating support for it.
An OpenID is an URL. However, using an URL like Joe Anderson to log-in and post comments with just doesn't look sophisticated. I much prefer to use my own blog's URL to post comments and log-in; it pumps traffic to my blog and frankly just looks better.
Whilst you could run your own OpenID identity server to do this, this takes quite a bit of expertise to set-up and whilst it is probably more secure, it isn't needed in my opinion.
