---
title: "Blogger Beta Ships OpenID"
date: 2007-11-30
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2007"
    url: "/tag/2007.md"
---

# Blogger Beta Ships OpenID

Google [announced tonight](https://web.archive.org/web/20090724084255/http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-feature-openid-commenting.html) that the new [Blogger](https://web.archive.org/web/20090724084255/http://www.blogger.com/) (nicknamed ‘Blogger in Draft’) will support OpenID-based commenting. Essentially it means that users of OpenID-enabled services – such as LiveJournal, WordPress and TypeKey – can comment on any Blogger blog using their accounts from those sites, rather than with Blogger/Google accounts.

This is another small but significant step on the way to an open identity system on the Web, something that we here at Read/WriteWeb have been [promoting](https://web.archive.org/web/20090724084255/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/user_centric_identity_call_to_action.php). Incidentally you may be wondering if we will ‘eat our own dogfood’ and implement OpenID on this blog — it is in the plan for our big re-design, which is coming very soon!

[Thanks David Recordon](https://web.archive.org/web/20090724084255/http://daveman692.livejournal.com/) for the heads up.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_google_blogger_beta.php))*