WordPress.com adds support for OpenID
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007as of today, WordPress.com (the hosted blog-service, not to be confused with the self-installed offering on WordPress.org) is supporting OpenID in both one direction. for now this means that users may login using existing OpenID-credentials as well as use their WordPress-URL as identity token for logging into other services (check the OpenID Directory for an extensive list) of OpenID-supporters). using existing OpenID-credentials on WordPress.com isn’t supporeted yet, but will most likely follow soon. OpenID really is taking off since the beginning of 2007, with major sites like Digg and Netvibes joining the party. seems like a good idea to check out the existing OpenID-implementations which are begging to be integrated with your next web-app
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