Comments on: SmugMug embraces OpenID

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Job Opening: Social Sorcerer

SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Job Opening: Social Sorcerer — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:40:07 +0000

[...] build and/or pushed us to build the building blocks we already have: an open API, Atom/RSS feeds, OpenID support, OAuth support, etc), so I’m thrilled we finally have the “ok” from my [...]

By: Chris Hills

Chris Hills — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:17:33 +0000

I came across this page whilst trying to find out if I could use my existing OpenID with SmugMug. Consider this a request! I would not consider using a site as an OpenID provider unless they supported a minimum of 2 non-password authentication methods (e.g. digital certificate, SMS, cardspace, …). The same works in reverse. I doubt I would use my OpenID provider for photo hosting if they provided it. I think sites should stick to doing one thing well. Please, SmugMug, be a good netizen and consume OpenIDs!

By: Open ID - wie peinlich ! « mon petit web - chindogu

Open ID - wie peinlich ! « mon petit web - chindogu — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:32:20 +0000

[...] I think OpenID is huge, and I’m glad we’re able to move the ball up the field a few more inches [...]

By: OpenID: Too many providers, not enough consumers | New Web Order - Nik Cubrilovic

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:55:01 +0000

[...] There have been a spate of announcements recently with a number of companies both large and small announcing that their products will ’support’ OpenID. Each of these announcements was met with a rousing standing ovation by the bloggers over at Techmeme. First Microsoft (with Hypercard), then AOL, Digg, Wordpress, SmugMug and many more. OpenID support is a good thing, it means that I can have a single online identity with a single identity provider of my choosing, and I can then use this identity to login to web applications that support OpenID but without the need to fully signup (you still need to set preferences etc.) [...]

By: Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:52:42 +0000

Don - long time reader, first time commenter. Absolutely fantastic post. As always your finger is astutely on the pule. FWIW one of our engineers wrote about integrating OpenID into our enterprise wiki, Confluence, on our developer blog just today. Hopefully we'll be rolling this out as a plugin in the very near future! m

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Why OpenID at SmugMug?

SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Why OpenID at SmugMug? — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:26:34 +0000

[...] We announced OpenID support last week. I then responded to some comments asking us why we were a provider first, rather than a consumer. Now, I’m answering some more comments basically asking why they should care about OpenID and how it helps SmugMug customers. [...]

By: Cheerful Curmudgeon » Blog Archive » Single Sign On - Finally

Cheerful Curmudgeon » Blog Archive » Single Sign On - Finally — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:23:16 +0000

[...] Don MacAskill over at SmugMug (my favorite photo sharing site) brought my attention to OpenID, a budding solution to an old computer problem: If you use a computer, you have way too many passwords to conveniently remember. You might use one or two passwords, perhaps a simple one for web sites that you do not care much about and a more complex, carefully guarded one for things like your bank account. The thorny problem pricks you when one site has a policy which prevents you from using your favorite password and you have to create a special one for just that site: how do you remember it? [...]

By: cabbey

cabbey — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:53:05 +0000

ah, I forgot vBulletin wasn’t updated yet. On the other hand, here’s the plugin for your blogging system. http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

By: onethumb

onethumb — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:22:30 +0000

@wanderAround:

Unfortunately, our biggest comment spammer problem stems from SmugMug users. I agree that we’re not handling it the best way we could, so look for some changes in the future.

Sorry about that.

Don

By: wanderAround

wanderAround — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:05:05 +0000

From the little I’ve read about it, I think OpenID sounds great. I agree though, it would be nice to see more consumers of it.

On a related, but slightly off-topic note… a shameless plug for my feature suggestion: remove the anti-spammer code (or future OpenID request) when adding a comment if a smugmugger is logged into smugmug? If we’re logged in, we’re not a spamming robot.

If somebody is changing the commenting authentication, they might want to take that into consideration.

end plug.