Technorati has announced that the history you setup on Technorati can now be used as an OpenID provider. Ian demonstrates how to use your Technorati profile to authenticate a blog on Google’s Blogger service.

I am pretty certain I would never use my Technorati profile to authenticate as an OpenID provider, but it’s a good marketing bit. It’s a good way to show that your profile could be used in that manner — something many might not know about (I didn’t). Technorati additionally began supporting OpenID for profile creation in October 2007.

Another update they have made by the

past day which I do find favourable is the addition of a URL link on the authority pages. In the past, some of the headlines linked directly to a site, but the majority of the day, the story linked to the site’s Technorati profile. that was a huge frustration factor for me as I want to see what the site says about me or a client, not the site’s profile page. Now (as shown below) they have the link to the profile and directly below it the full URL linked to the actual site. Bravo!

Original post by Allen Stern