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Two interesting pieces of OpenID news today:

1) “Blogger in Draft” has announced support for leaving comments via OpenID. This is big news if for no other reason that when Google breathes, the industry notices. Their implementation is good, but still needs some interface work and completeness with regards to delegation. I expect they’ll get things polished very quickly once any user-flow issues are dealt with. No doubt there will be many people eager to see how robust their solution is - if/when they roll this out across their other properties, OpenID becomes significantly more visible.

2) I saw announced today a new service from two self-described ‘research coneheads’ at Microsoft Research - InkblotPassword. InkblotPassword is an OpenID provider that allows your password to be a collection of self-descriptions of inkblots that the site provides. When you enter your username, your inkblots are shown to you and you enter your self-assigned ‘descriptors’. You end up with a very strong password that is easily remembered - since you’re actually being prompted by images that become familiar to you over time. Very fascinating. The interface is a little rough, but make sure to use the giant question mark help button on the upper-right. It will explain everything just fine.

See you at IIW next week. Come say hello.

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 1st, 2007 at 4:23 am and is filed under OpenID.