I just completed a massive pain-in-the-butt update to this site where I have OpenID authentication and signup working. Yes, that means you can use something like livejournal to authenticate against my site from now on. It also means that I need you to fill out a registration form the first time. I need to create a profile section for my site sometime so you can add an OpenID to your normal registration if you have one. But it's there and it works (with some potential problems). Enjoy it!
For developers, I hope to put together a quick and dirty tutorial on how to implement OpenID using the JanRain library for PHP. It's really not that hard once you get used to a few routines and things here and there just to get a rudimentary authentication piece going. I haven't implemented the server piece where you can give out your own OpenID. But since places like Yahoo, M$ and Google are supporting OpenID, I think it might be simpler just to let the Big Boys handle that for now.
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