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June 28, 2005
New Feature: Comment ID non-livejourn, Thoughts? ; A generalist site
Livejournal, this free piece of crap that I spit on, has a new function: Open ID. Thinking of instituting it for comments.
I am not particularly motivated to really "know" who I am getting comments from, it's just a matter of a string of anon comments gets hard to follow. I ask then you, the readers and occasional suffers from my irascable nature, your thoughts. Does it work with faux web addresses? Should I impose it for all commentators?
Also eerie, in her own private journal raised the concept of a MENA board / blog. Now many of you know that I flirted with this idea, but being fundamentally too lazy and cheap (as well as busy) to pursue, I let this die. Apparently there is some support for the concept.
Livejournal Description
What is OpenID?
What is OpenID?
From our recent news announcement on 2005-06-27:
LiveJournal now supports OpenID. You've probably noticed this option when you go and leave a comment.
If you're confused, that's understandable: OpenID is a little new, and will make more sense as an increasing number of sites on the web start to support it.
In a nutshell, OpenID lets you take your identity with you, proving to other sites on the web that you own a particular URL. LiveJournal's OpenID support lets you use your LiveJournal identity (just your URL) on other websites which take OpenID, and also lets you take your non-LiveJournal identity and use it here.
What does this mean?
-- leaving comments on other blog sites, and proving who you are
-- being able to add/trust/ban people as friends who don't have LiveJournal accounts
-- off-site LJ utilities that require you to prove your identity
It'll get more exciting as other sites start to support it. DeadJournal, since it uses the LiveJournal software, will likely be the first. As time goes on, there's rumors of upcoming support in Movable Type, WordPress, MediaWiki, Bugzilla, TypePad, TypeKey, b2, TextPattern, perl.org, and a bunch of other sites.
In a nutshell, whenever you see this little logo: , that means enter your LiveJournal URL if you want to prove to that site who you are. LiveJournal will ask you to confirm if you trust them, or you can say "trust that site forever". Never enter your password on a non-LiveJournal site. A site using OpenID doesn't need your password, and if they ask for it, they're trying to scam you.
That's it for now. More announcements as we continue to polish our OpenID support and more sites support it. DeadJournal should be this Friday, I hear.
Posted by The Lounsbury at June 28, 2005 09:52 AM
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