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9th April 2008 - Link Blog

OpenID for Google Accounts. Google App Engine integrates with Google’s user accounts, so Ryan Barrett (of Google) used it to build an idproxy.net style OpenID provider.

Posted 9th April 2008 at 1:09 am

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