Brian Ellin of JanRain wrote up an awesome app running on AppEngine over the past week which lets you browse the web and " Demand OpenID ". Really simple site which shows a running tally of the top sites (currently Twitter and Flickr) where people want to be able to login with OpenID. It includes a dead simple bookmarklet for you to add your demand as you're browsing around. Marshall over on ReadWriteWeb wrote about it as well; Demand.OpenID.net: A One Click Call to Action .

Chris Messina mentioned this to me yesterday as we're both up in Seattle for a Microsoft Technology Summit, but Ma.gnolia is now only accepting OpenIDs for new signups! This is also reflected in their login page which now defaults to OpenID and allows you to select from various OpenID Providers (including the "Yahoo! button") as well as a traditional username and password for existing users. Ma.gnolia was one of the earlier supporters of OpenID so I'm both excited and grateful that they're helping

eTech and SXSW were definitly two of the hot places to announce new services. It started exactly a week ago where Tom Coates from Yahoo! Brickhouse birthed a Fire Eagle which is a location service. I'm really interested in Fire Eagle because of how simple it really is. Some applications update your location (like Dopplr does for me) and then you can grant access to other applications to lookup your location. This morning Ben announced the plugin he wrote for Movable Type which integrates Fire Eagle.

eTech and SXSW were definitly two of the hot places to announce new services. It started exactly a week ago where Tom Coates from Yahoo! Brickhouse birthed a Fire Eagle which is a location service. I'm really interested in Fire Eagle because of how simple it really is. Some applications update your location (like Dopplr does for me) and then you can grant access to other applications to lookup your location. This morning Ben announced the plugin he wrote for Movable Type which integrates Fire Eagle.

More on this later, but this morning in Tokyo we announced the formation of a Japan chapter of the OpenID Foundation . Seems it made the front page of Google News in Japan!

This morning the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. This is really great news as it shows just how far OpenID has come since brad first announced it in 2005 . Thanks to everyone who has worked with us over the past two and a half years to get OpenID to the point that it is! I'll try to keep this list updated of people writing about it: O'Reilly Radar - OpenID Foundation - Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo ReadWriteWeb - OpenID

I thought being on Google News once in a lifetime was amazing, now twice! Today is exactly one year and one day after the last time OpenID was on Google News because of the Microsoft announcement at RSA.

Pretty cool map of the World given all the trips on Dopplr last year. They posted more stats on trips as well.

This morning two awesome things shipped: - the Action Streams plugin for Movable Type - Yahoo's OpenID Provider which you can see in action on Plaxo You can read more about the Action Streams plugin on Six Apart news as well as a more technical post on MT.org. I'm extremely excited about it since for the first time in a few years my website isn't just a black page with a giant photo of me wearing sunglasses and a link to my blog. It was also really great working with the Movable Type team, especially