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13th July 2007 - Link Blog

Making OpenID really really easy. I’ve been thinking along very similar lines: OpenID providers can construct a user’s OpenID URL for them by asking for a site that they use (AOL / LiveJournal / WordPress etc) and their username on that service.

Posted 13th July 2007 at 7:28 am

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