More Support for Open Standards on MyBlogLog and Digg

May 2, 2008 in Open Standards, OpenID by Carsten Pötter | 4 comments

MyBlogLog is becoming the most talked about service on this blog, I guess. Maybe I should make it a weekly feature. ;)
Well, what’s the news of today then? MyBlogLog is an OpenID provider now. And no, sadly it’s not a relying party as well.

Users who want their MyBlogLog profile URL to be an OpenID identifier have to opt-in at the Yahoo! OpenID site. So it is no surprise that this implementation provides the same features as Yahoo!’s (see my post about it). It also means that users don’t have to log in with their complete profile URL (http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/memebers/username) but can shorten the OpenID to mybloglog.com. OpenID 2.0 and directed identity make it possible.

Also interesting to note is the blog post about MyBlogLog’s OpenID support by Shreyas Doshi, product manager for Yahoo!’s OpenID initiative:

With this change, we have also eliminated the only-one-custom-OpenID-identifier per-account restriction. This means that you can select both your Flickr photostream AND your MyBlogLog profile URL as your OpenID identifiers, in addition to creating a pretty me.yahoo.com identifier.

Can we speculate about del.icio.us and Upcoming OpenID identifiers as well now? More providers? Please become relying parties!

By the way, MyBlogLog also added a nice FOAF icon next to the vCard and hCard icons on profiles. They heard you, Robert. :)

And Digg?

Meanwhile Digg has added XFN support to user profiles and RDFa to submitted stories. Good to see further implementations of open standards on Digg. Maybe we will eventually see OpenID support. Announcements have been made more than once.

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  1. Ian Kennedy’s avatar

    Ian Kennedy on May 2, 2008 at 05:16

    Hi Carsten,

    Thanks for all the support. Yes, we’ve been pretty busy but it’s been fun. We want to put all the pieces in place so people can extend MyBlogLog into new and interesting ways.

    Kent’s Foafster hack (http://kentbrewster.com/foafster/) is one example.

    Yes, I know, it’s only as a relying party but baby steps first - we’re talking about Yahoo’s authentication system here. You can be sure the moment they start supporting OpenID’s for login, we’ll support it on MyBlogLog!

    Cheers,

    Ian
    MyBlogLog Product Guy

  2. Carsten Pötter’s avatar

    Carsten Pötter on May 2, 2008 at 05:48

    No worries, Ian. It’s cool to see all those features being rolled out. But being a relying party would be very, very cool. :)