The march continues: WordPress.com
Tack up another 1 million OpenID enabled users on our march to 100 million users. WordPress.com today announced support for OpenID. Word on the street is that Simon Willison helped make this happen for the folks at Automattic. This, of course, answers something Jyte users have been asking for for awhile:
Unfortunately, you cannot login to WordPress (at least from what I can tell) with an external OpenID. This means that WordPress.com is just a provider of OpenID’s and not a consumer of OpenID’s. So I can’t use my MyOpenID or my LiveJournal OpenID post comments on WordPress.com blogs. Hopefully support for that will be coming soon.
Congrats to Matt and the rest of the WordPress team on this. Now we’ll really start to see some interesting applications appear for OpenID now that more and more blogging sites are supporting the technology.
Scott,
Thanks for embedding my claim.
Andrew
Heh … I find it funny that the only person to disagree with your claim is Matt (the author of WordPress) … :-)
Yes, I noticed Matt’s disagreement. In some ways it seems a little strange, given that WordPress.com now provides one side of openid. On the other hand, what I meant by my vaguely-worded claim was that I’d like WordPress.com to be a consumer, and I think that’s what Matt was disagreeing with.
Actually I was just joking around.
I’m relieved to hear that, Matt, and so will look forward to my claimID being eagerly consumed by WordPress.com
Now if only Jyte and/or OpenID had a “ironic humor” checkbox … :-)
Nice post. I like it.
I haven’t been up to anything recently. My life’s been really boring lately.
Whatever. Today was a complete loss. Basically nothing seems important.
I’ve just been staying at home waiting for something to happen.
I haven’t gotten much done lately.
My life’s been completely bland lately, but so it goes. Not much on my mind these days.