Technorati Adopts OpenID
October 20th, 2006 - Fred StutzmanSome good news from the OpenID world - blog search engine Technorati has adopted OpenID. This means that if your blogging platform supports OpenID, you can use your login to claim your blog in Technorati. Sure, this is a small step - but it is a small step that has consequence because of its scale.
The idea of using a decentralized identity system to make claims between services is very useful - and it is something we’ve been working on since very early in ClaimID’s development. As more of our identity goes online, it makes sense that we are going to want to claim some of this identity. To address this, we have OpenID and MicroID.
We’re very excited by this news. We’re also really excited by the news that both del.icio.us and Last.fm are now supporting MicroID. These forward-thinking services understand the value of claiming identity - and we’re very happy they have adopted open formats for making these claims. So today, it is a kudos to Technorati, Last.fm and del.icio.us - thank you for joining us in this important work on identity.
October 21st, 2006 at 11:10 am
Nice to see some biggies joining the ID game
I’v etrid my delicious & techonorati accounts, but neither work (to verify).
Technorati doesnt seem to post a microID tag at all, while delicious (my bookmarks page/profile page) posts a totally different microID.
I must be doing something wrong, but cannot figure it out! ma.gnolia & last.fm pages for me worked fine.
October 25th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
[...] As popular web sites such as Zooomr, Livejournal and Technorati begin to support OpenID, I wonder if we can use OpenID for identifying people and discovering the semantic description about them on the Semantic Web? [...]
October 29th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
It’s a pity that Technorati don’t allow log in via OpenID, but that will come with time. (LiveJournal has this problem too - that OpenID log in’s are not full LJ accounts)