How to turn your blog in to an OpenID

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How to turn your blog in to an OpenID - not just the how to but the why to.

"Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same account to log in to multiple sites and applications, without having to trust them all with your password? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could do this without having to hand ownership of your online identity over to some monolithic third party?"

A good primer for the openID standard.

December 19, 2006 in Blogging

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