Dave Recordon (and many, many, many others)points out that the Blogger Beta has added support for accepting OpenID for comments.
This is a watershed moment in terms of OpenID’s brief history as it seems to represent a change in the perception and utility of the protocol by a very significant potential proponent.
For once I can say to someone like Google, “No, you don’t know me, you’ve never let me use my own credentials — my own domain — where I’ve built up my reputation — to login to your system before. To date you’ve only let me use your siloed credentials to sign in against your servers… you never trusted me before. Today you’re starting to say, ‘Well, maybe it’s okay for you to tell me who you are using your own credentials.’”
Now, don’t think me getting wistful here.
OpenID is far from perfect (as Marshall Kirkpatrick has pointed out). But, with Internet Identity Workshop coming next week, we have a great opportunity to discuss the necessary improvements that need to happen around user experience, around security, around finalization of the protocol and around thinking through what possibilities a more “citizen centric web” might bring.
(Oh, and in case you hadn’t noticed, I like to use Pearl Jam song titles in my blog posts.)
Factory Joe 
Forgive me if this seems naive … but I’m just this girl, I don’t track the business of the web except when it gets in my face …
So my question is, To what end?
And, is this really as radical as it appears? Like, where’s the VCs in all this, where’s the great gobs of money to be made.