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6th March 2007 - Link Blog

phpbb-openid: Your AIM screen name is your OpenID. Log in to a phpBB board with an AOL OpenID and it will try to associate your OpenID with an account that lists that AIM in the profile. This is the kind of behaviour I talked about in my FOWA talk.

Posted 6th March 2007 at 7:57 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 6th March 2007.

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