One ID to rule them all 1
I finally decided to put my claimID to use today with the announcement that Basecamp now supports openID. This means that I can easily access all of my Basecamp project with a single login. Some of our clients have their own Basecamp projects and having everything spread around (different usernames, passwords…) made it difficult to manage. I just modified my accounts on a few Basecamp sites and now see them all listed for me to navigate between.
update: Minor annoyance. This caused all my RSS feeds to break because I subscribe to each project individually. I assumed that they’d allow me to now use my openid/password for all my RSS feeds/iCal subscriptions, but they provide you some unique hash for the password. Not sure why they decided to do that… instead of allowing me to use my openid/pass for the subscriptions.
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They can’t use your OpenID password for the RSS feeds because they don’t have it. Also OpenID relies on redirects (lots of them) and the possibility of the user to enter something in a form. RSS readers can’t do that.
The “work-around” (that’s what it is in the end) is actually quite smart. Though a button to generate a new password would be nice.