OpenID for non-SuperUsers

Based on the results of my Unobtrusive <a class="zem_slink" title="OpenID Foundation" rel="homepage" href="http://openid.net">OpenID post, it is quite evident that there is a lot of partial <a class="zem_slink" title="Knowledge" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge">knowledge about OpenID out there. While my knowledge on the subject is far from complete, this post is my attempt to share what I have learned with others.

The target audience for the bulk of this post is people who are capable of adding autodiscovery links to their blog templates, may be able to install a small <a class="zem_slink" title="PHP" rel="homepage" href="http://www.php.net/">PHP script and/or know what a <a class="zem_slink" title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol">HTTP <a class="zem_slink" title="List of HTTP headers" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers">header is.

Google Profiles Turn Into OpenIDs

As part of its push to go more social, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google has been attempting to unify its various account profiles into one Google Profile. And now it’s more useful. Google’s <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/brad-fitzpatrick">Brad Fitzpatrick has just <a href="http://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/6059279144">tweeted out that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenIDs.