MyBlogLog and OpenID
Starting now you can use your MyBlogLog profile URL to login to any site that supports OpenID. Visit the Yahoo Open ID site to learn how.
For those of you with big, long fugly default urls, visit the Change your Profile page to pick something short and sweet and get one step closer to Profile Zen.
Why would you do this?
Let's say you come across a site that accepts OpenID for authenticated comments. You can use your MyBlogLog profile here so anyone wanting to click through and learn more about you will go to your MyBlogLog page and see all your blogs and latest updates on your New with Me page.
Many thanks to Shreyas Doshi, Allen Tom and the Yahoo Membership team on helping make this happen.
UPDATE: Once you add your MyBlogLog profile URL to the list, you don't need to use your entire profile URL. Just type "mybloglog.com" and we'll take it from there.
OpenID is becoming standard now days for login into any website. It's good you introduced openID support in MyBlogLog.
Posted by: Sunil | May 01, 2008 at 06:32 PM
Hi,
When I saw you are supporting OpenID, I decided to check out MyBlogLog. I couldn't find any way to login with my OpenID, though. Is MyBlogLog an OpenID consumer or just a provider?
Posted by: Aaron Klemm | May 01, 2008 at 07:46 PM
Hi Aaron,
Sorry, we're just a provider at the moment. As soon as Yahoo authentication supports consuming OpenID, we'll be the first out the gate supporting it.
Ian
Posted by: Ian Kennedy | May 01, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Having used MyblogLog since months, I find extremely disappointing to force us applying for a Yahoo sign in.
You should leave the choice to MyblogLog users community if they want to login using Yahoo ID or as before with their mail and PW (which worked flawless).
Whatever technical reason given to sell the Yahoo ID concept, you simply force us to use a service we did not ask for.
It's a shame the first action Yahoo is taking since the acquisition of MyBlogLog is 'capturing' the community to Yahoo services.
Posted by: Fabien | May 03, 2008 at 09:53 AM
Hi Fabien,
I hear you. We are working with Yahoo on more options in the future but in order to take advantage of the Yahoo infrastructure, we need to use Yahoo authentication as it exists today.
Ian
Posted by: Ian Kennedy | May 05, 2008 at 11:56 AM
I will just assume that using Yahoo makes the network larger, which is what I am looking for.
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sharon
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Posted by: Sharon | May 06, 2008 at 10:37 PM
I looked at the howto, filled out yahoo.com at the field with the openid icon and got the following result
Could not discover an OpenID identity server endpoint at the url: http://yahoo.com
This was the wpopenid plugin for wordpress.
Posted by: Mike | May 09, 2008 at 06:33 AM
@Mike, did you claim your OpenID account at Yahoo first? Without it, it will not work.
Posted by: Ian Kennedy | May 09, 2008 at 09:30 AM
Yes I did...
Posted by: Mike | May 12, 2008 at 11:36 PM
I managed to login to dopplr through Yahoo openid.
The error must be within wpopenid
Posted by: Mike | May 15, 2008 at 02:00 AM
I signed up and forgot my open id stuff - I need an assistant to keep track of my id's and passwords.
Posted by: Dennis Blackmore | May 15, 2008 at 05:42 AM