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OpenIDs login now available on ShiftEdit

ShiftEdit has been getting some great press this weekend thanks to the writers at Ajaxian and Profy (thanks! :) ). Profy’s review, in particular, brought up a lot of great points I’ll address in future blog posts (it’s 1am, I’m tired ;) ) but one thing they both mentioned, was the lack of an OpenID login on ShiftEdit.

We initially decided to launch with just Facebook and MSN/Live/Hotmail logins because with 64 million and 380 million users respectively, we thought that should cover just about anyone wanting to try our service ;) But I think these writers both correctly identified the need to support the OpenID community. So I burned through a few cans of Gingerale, found a great OpenID library, yada yada yada, and ShiftEdit now supports OpenID login.

Long live the open Web! ;)

UPDATE: I had some reports that Yahoo OpenID wasn’t working with my first implementation. Looks like the library I had used didn’t support the last OpenID 2.0 protocol. So I switched over to using the ExtremeSwank library. It has a better name anyhow ;) Please try it out and let me know!

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This entry was posted on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 1:18 am and is filed under ScribbleLive. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

9 Responses to “OpenIDs login now available on ShiftEdit”

  1. andre says:
    March 23, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Doesn’t seem to be working 100%. I just tried logging in with my Yahoo based OpenID and it did nothing… not sure why.

  2. Jonathan says:
    March 23, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    I think the library I used doesn’t support OpenID 2.0 standard. I’ll pop in another one ;)

  3. Jonathan says:
    March 23, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    It’s working with Yahoo OpenID now :) Have fun!

  4. andre says:
    March 24, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    Agreed… works really smoothly now! Woot for bug fixes.

  5. Jonathan says:
    March 24, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    I think the load balancing has broke it again :P

  6. Jonathan says:
    March 24, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    I fixed it…AGAIN. OpenID is a harsh mistress ;)

  7. Shel HOltz says:
    April 23, 2008 at 11:33 am

    I was able to login using my OpenID this morning in my hotel room. Now that I’m at the conference, I can’t get connected. I am able to go to the ClaimID.com site and log in just fine; evidently it’s just the connection between ShiftEdit and ClaimID that’s having a problem.

  8. Melissa says:
    May 23, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    Hi, I have been trying to use my livejournal account as the address to login, but I keep getting a “openid reject your request”, even though I have authorized from livejournal’s end. If you can provide any help it would be most appreciated.

  9. Steve says:
    May 27, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    Tried using a Yubikey delegated through my personal website, and I get into an endless loop of login.

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