When Digg’s Lead Architect Joe Stump took the stage at the Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco earlier today, something in one of his screen shots caught our attention. He was there to show how users will soon be able to log in to Digg without an account via their Facebook credentials (the new Facebook Connect product). But also included prominently in the screen, but not mentioned by Stump, was an option to log in via OpenID.
Digg founder Kevin Rose promised OpenID integration at a conference in early 2007, but the company has been silent on it since then. Like many other companies, they seemed to enjoy the positive press that the announcement made but were unwilling to schedule the development time to actually implement it.
Facebook Connect isn’t slated to go live until the Fall, and we assume they’ll push OpenID at the same time. We asked OpenID’s David Recordan what he knew - he said he noticed the same thing we did but doesn’t have any additional information on when or if Digg would finally implement the single sign-on solution. We also have an email in to Digg for comment.
All startups should just announce they are going to integrate OpenID and then keep quiet for a year or so and then leak a screenshot of a new release showing an OpenID login option..
Then send Mike an email so he can write up something.. …
Sorry Mike, I just couldn’t resist….
actually that “Have OpenID?” link takes you to a page that says “too f*ckin bad!”
You’d think Digg would be really keen to get these integrations going and let their current users start posting their digg activity infront of the 90million users that have never heard of digg!
I know if i was at Digg i’d be putting facebook and openID integration to the top of the list. It could be the single biggest earner of user for them…like…ever.
OpenID is useless unless everyone starts have symmetrical implementations (issuing and receiving). Some have suggested that a trusted third-party should be in charge. Like who? he suggests Visa!
Back to the story, I wonder how will this play out if Digg is eventually bought by Google (as reported by TechCrunch)?
It’s also pictured here. (Source)
Sorry, I linked to the thumbnail instead of the full-sized image.
They needed to include open id just for the convenience of the users. http://blabtech.blogspot.com
Look how beautiful that PNG overlay is.. very nice.
Hopefully we will have a couple of user ids and passwords to remember really soon.
i think you will start seeing these sorts of multi-login panels soon. And, add in google and myspace to the mix. That is unless Facebook is making people sign exclusives.
OpenID integration is always a good thing
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Is everyone commenting here stoned??? Digg+Facebook+OpenID ?? wow, they have 6-7 years of existence between all of them. Hope this bubble bursts soon so we can move on to a better internet and it’s one that doesn’t include an OpenID. That’s a hackers paradise. If you can write your logins down or keep them on a usb drive , you deserve to get your acounts hacked.
My guess is that Facebook added the OpenID button there and not Digg.
Where can I get one of those Digg hoodies?
so what happens to those of us who accounts on both already? can we link them?
Would someone please tell them that login is not a verb?
At the bottom it should say “Logined as Joe Stump” for consistency.
LOL, I am still waiting for Google to suck up Digg. GOOGLE is going to rule the world one day you watch!
JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi
Digg is rubbish, I can’t believe Google is about to pay $200 million for those clowns. All they’re really doing is buying the traffic, their ‘algorithm’ is useless considering an employee has to manually approve submits before they appear on the popular list. Is Google really this stupid? The web 2.0 bubble is slowly deflating…
One simple things that I could think about now is, if this happen, I can log to both place easier
openID is a great concept, I can login to more places easier and faster
“openID is a great concept, I can login to more places easier and faster”
Is it that simple???