Use Your Google Account to Sign In other Websites

Posted by Jerry Ong |

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Oct 31

The era of using single Google Account to sign-in multiple websites has started! Google had become an identity provider for OpenID.

Online users are required to create individual passwords for many websites they visit daily and Google learn that users would prefer to avoid this step so they could visits websites more easily, because of this Google has launched an API that allows other websites to provide users with the option to login using their Google Account, in turn eliminating the need for a separate sign-up.

The pioneer websites first allow users using Google account credentials for signup and sign in, including Plaxo and Zoho.

The initial version of the API will use the OpenID 2.0 protocol to enable websites to validate the identity of a Google Account user, including the optional ability to request the user’s e-mail address. Below is an example of the flow that a user might see if he or she starts at a website that uses this new feature:

The website could use a modified login box that looks like the one below. If the user enters a Gmail address and indicates that he or she does not have a password for this site, then the site can redirect him or her to Google.

The user would then be taken to the Google website and asked to confirm whether he or she wants to sign in using Google Account

Jerry Says……

This is a great news for google users like me! Whenever i comment on some blog, always wondering why i need to key in my name and blog address again and again, is there anyone can create something better than open ID (or i should say more comprehensive and wider)

via [Google Code Blog]

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