I blogged here about OpenID and group membership and hinted that Second Life needs to support OpenIDs. Wouldn't it be neat if Second Life functioned as an OpenID provider, offering every avatar an OpenID URL such ashttp://openid.secondlife.com/ArtFossett
or somesuch? This would be particularly useful for those of us that blog using our avatar names.
As far as I can tell, it would be relatively easy for Linden Lab to support. Now, I just need to work out how to suggest it to them?
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Did you notice SignpostMarv's blog at http://blog.signpostmarv.name/2007/08/15/office-hours/ where he mentions SLOpenID as a discussion topic?
Hmmm, no I hadn't spotted that.
I met briefly with SignPostMarv and he seems convinced that LL aren't interested in supporting OpenID directly. Unfortunately, the phone rang halfway thru our chat and I had to leave :-( Never found out what SLOpenID is.
I'll hopefully get another chance to talk to him about this at some point.
Will the day come, I wonder, when people ignore the phone in favour of ongoing conversations in SL?
Just a heads up, Linden Lab have been working on an OpenID server, but were having difficulty getting it to function the way they wanted it to.
I of course got there first. Twice :-P
There's apparently some work which may lead to OpenID support - see https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Authentication
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