Blogger Adds OpenID For Comments
Google’s Blogger has added the ability for users to comment using their OpenID, thus allowing those logged into accounts from their WordPress or LiveJournal blog, or any of a ton of other OpenID sources, to comment as a logged in user. Bloggers can turn it off in the control panel, if they like.
Is Google abandoning the Google Account? Of course not. What’s happening is Blogger understanding that comments need to be encouraged to have a robust platform, and that commenter authentication is hugely important for cutting down on spam. They’re improving their platform in a small but important way, and I’d encourage them to go even further and try to implement Microsoft’s Live ID to cover tens of millions of Spaces users.
By the by, heard that LiveJournal was sold to some Russian media company? Crazy. I wonder if Six Apart made a profit on it.
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