Using your GMail/Google Account as an OpenID sign-in
Posted by Cort Buchholz on 08 / 23 / 2010
You know that all Google/Gmail accounts are also OpenID identities, right? Well, assuming so, have you ever wondered how you can use your Google/Gmail account as an OpenID sign-in to a website? Here is one way of doing such...
Visit http://openid-provider.appspot.com/ and then follow the instructions on the provided page. It's that simple!
I discovered how this is done by reading: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/use-google-account-email-openid...
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Oops! I forgot to mention that my resulting OpenID URL is: http://openid-provider.appspot.com/cort.buchholz for my cort.buchholz [AT] gmail.com address.