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I’m really excited to hear that Ma.gnolia.com is having such great luck with OpenID. They have been one of the early adopters of this technology and its paying off:

So far, over 15% of new Ma.gnolia members are seeing the advantage and getting their OpenID when they join Ma.gnolia. Considering how new OpenID is, and that it takes a bit of un-learning of old sign-in habits, we’re really delighted to see this adoption rate.

Chris introduced Larry and I a few months ago and gave me a chance to give him an earful about how great OpenID was. It didn’t take them long to get it working on their site once they figured out some of the tricks of the trade. I was really excited that Ma.gnolia decided to become an affiliate as well!

Its sites like Ma.gnolia and Zooomr that are really great showcases for OpenID and the potential is holds.

Saw Simon mention a three-step process for getting an OpenID show up on reddit and of course I have to link to it because they are using MyOpenID as the example … :-)

This is also a great time to mention the affiliate program that we launched a few weeks ago. If you run your own site but don’t want to host an OpenID server, you can sign up as an affiliate and redirect users to MyOpenID.com to get their own OpenID. The user is presented with a logo from your site as well as a description of why they were directed there. You can see an example from my blog here.

Some of the better known affiliates are Ma.gnolia.com, a great social-bookmarking site and Zooomr, a really amazing photo-sharing site. If you don’t want to run an OpenID server, we’re more than happy to do it for you. And you can even use your own domain if you want to.

Finally, if you want to run your own OpenID server you can do that as well. phpMyID is a great standalone PHP OpenID identity provider that was just released a week or so ago. You can then manage your own server and deliver identities yourself.

So it wasn’t created to be an OpenID tutorial but Rauol from over at Zooomr has created a great video to explain the OpenID login process, why its a URL as well as how it works with Zooomr. Very cool stuff.

Thanks for doing that Rauol!!