Bloglines with (Partial) OpenID Support
3. October 2007 – 20:01 byBloglines has has announced its support for OpenID yesterday. Well, more specifically Bloglines has become an identity provider (IdP) but currently won’t accept logins with OpenID’s from other providers. The OpenID’s looks like this: http://id.bloglines.com/username.
Though another company becoming an IdP but not consuming OpenID’s is undesirable because active users who usually have accounts with a lot of services will end up with multiple OpenID’s they can’t use anywhere but at the provider’s service. So lets hope Bloglines will stay true to its statement that it will becoming a consumer in November as well; to quote Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/write Web:
Let’s see them put their money where their mouths are in November and let new users log in to Bloglines using their AIM screen names, Wordpress.com credentials, MyOpenID.com accounts and more.
At least it’s encouraging that Bloglines will also support other open standards like OAuth and APML. I will watch if the company is heading for the right direction.
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