Linking Multiple Basecamp Accounts Together With One Login

I discovered a while back that you can tie together your Basecamp, Highrise, and Backpack accounts with one login if you use your OpenID account. When you log in with your OpenID, there will be a bar across the top of your accounts with links that let you switch from one to the other easily. What I did not know was that you can also link your different Basecamp accounts together with your OpenID. I discovered this today when I set up my PodCamp San Antonio login on Basecamp to use my OpenID.

This is great because it means that you can have a free account for your own personal project and have additional projects through other people’s accounts. So long as you use OpenID logins in your guest accounts, you can have a network of interlinked accounts under a single user name and password. How awesome is that?

Don’t Forget Your OpenID When Upgrading Your Template

Last night, I upgraded my template on this blog. PlainText went to 4.0 some time ago, so I had a couple minutes to spare I put to use. As always, upgrading on WordPress is very easy. I did, however, forget to update my OpenID links on the new template. I realized this when I tried commenting on somebody’s Blogger account. I tried it a couple times before it clicked that I had upgraded the template.

Blogger Has OpenID

Tonight, I have been checking out some of my favorite blogs and found that they have OpenID activated. Naturally, I took the opportunity to comment on a couple using my OpenID account. A few days ago, I activated OpenID through draft.blogger.com on all my blogs. I don’t know if my favorite blogs activated OpenID on their blogs, if blogger added it for everybody, or if the feature was added because of my google account settings transferring. I don’t care. All that matters is that I can now comment with my blog URL as my login.