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Blogger to use Google Accounts?

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, August 9, 2006
17 years ago9,639 views

For those of you that don't subscribe to my blog feed (which is understandable as sometimes I post boring personal stuff) you might have missed this:

Blogger.com to finally use Google Accounts?
http://ruscoe.net/blog/2006/08/bloggercom-to-finally-use-google.asp

Basically, it appears that the Google Accounts "NewAccount" page for the "blogger" code name (https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=blogger) changed recently so that it no longer produced the usual error: "The page you requested is invalid.” (You can't actually link your Google Account to your Blogger sign in yet but I think there's definitely no doubt that it's going to happen at some point.)

Does this mean Google are actually going to start developing new features for Blogger again?

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Yep, I remember the Blogger team blogging about this a while ago.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

BTW, it's probably worth mentioning that the usual Login URLs [1, 2] have already been active for ages but have never worked for either Google or Blogger accounts. The NewAccount [3] and CreateAccount [4] pages have only recently started to not display an error though.

[1] https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?service=blogger
[2] https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=blogger
[3] https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=blogger
[4] https://www.google.com/accounts/CreateAccount?service=blogger

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Sohil – are you sure? I've never read anything official from Google/Blogger about this and can't seem to find any reference to it on Blogger Buzz. Do you have a link?

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I can sign in with my blogger username and password.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony, this is a new sign up ..

Haochi, were you abel to 'continue" using blogger from this URL ??

https://www.google.com/accounts/CreateServiceAccount?service=blogger

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Haochi – so can I now. That's new too then. (Still, it's not linked to your Google Account though.)

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony, Yes I remember reading that the transition will begin in the fall. I'll try to digg up a link.

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Nevermind. I was talking about Writely.

Art-One [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Nice find, made me rediscover your site too ;-)

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Update here:

http://ruscoe.net/blog/2006/08/blogger-definitely-migrating-to-google.asp

Looks like it's probably going to happen quite soon...

http://ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/blogger-login-new.gif
http://ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/blogger-login-migrate.gif

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony, I am not see the login screen, mine is stil the old one. No referecent to the google account

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I see only the old one too. what page were you on when you saw this tony?

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Those logins aren't yet officially live... ;-)

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Hey, in my 'sandbox' account, RS2, Weaver and the others* are back!

(*) no link with LOST :-P

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

How do you know about them then Tony?

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

TOMHTML: Really? Maybe they've reinstated them for an accounts that had signed up to them. (I can't test this as they're not allowing new RS2/Weaver accounts to be created and my old account was disabled!)

Here's a screenshot of the full list I could sign up for using my sandbox account yesterday:

http:// ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/sandbox/sandbox-en-all-20060810.png

(Link broken intentionally so it doesn't load the image here.)

Most of these are live already – except for SSD and Mobile Download Console but you can add both those to your live Google Account anyway.

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony, yes RS2 and weaver is back, check your mail

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

dpneal: All will be revealed soon. I'm working on a post that will help explain...

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I remember that all my sandbox services were erased, since I never connected to that account again
Until now

http://lh4.google.com/tomhtml/RNyEnPC7ABI/AAAAAAAAAJA/ihY-XLaHvLQ/sandboxnew.jpg
(Thanks Picasa :-P)

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

yeah in this account link

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=blogger

i am able to sign-in with my blogger account and password but not google account.........

CJ Millisock [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony, your blog rools. You've got a new subscriber. :-)

How did you find those "sign into Blogger with your Blogger account or Google account" pics?

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony congrats on finding the new service again
i am talking about the
http:// ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/sandbox/sandbox-en-all-20060810.png

list the service codes of the current services you have in your accounts page....
so that we can register in it

And once Again Hats off.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Maybe theses pictures are fake? :-P

Sankar > with my blogger account informations, I got "Sorry, service is currently not available. Please try again later."

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Sankar, that screenshot doesn't list all the services / codes. If you want to know all the services I'm aware of (live *and* sandbox) check out this page:

http://ruscoe.net/google/google-account-service-names/

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

tomhtml have you tried this link
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=blogger

enter your blogger username and password and you will be re-directed to blogger dashboard

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

oh ok sankar, I entered my email address and not my user name. It works now ;-)

but the same action with this address https://sandbox.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=blogger still doesn't work.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

strange, the authotication process is forking .. not only is is consoldiating the process a regular google account, it's forked into another service like blogger..

I used my blogger usid and pwd and it just passed it thru to my blogger dashboard. So this means at the back end, they are consolidating authentication. Maybe this will now roll-out to Wrtiely and other 'aquired' servcies...

I hope they do that, then we all have want we wanted.. a single-signon for multuiple service streams!! :)_

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

any update tony ?????? >>>>

-TD- [PersonRank 4]

17 years ago #

Hmm, dont know if this has anything to do with it but I am getting this when I go to Blogger.

There is a problem with this website's security certificate.
  
  
   The security certificate presented by this website has expired or is not yet valid.

:S

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

tony you reported that

https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=blogger

in the google page will show create service
yesterday it was showing well but today the above link returns "The page you requested is invalid."

the below page will not appear anymore

http://ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/google-accounts-new-account-blogger.gif

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Sankar – that's interesting to know, thanks!

Piotr Konieczny [PersonRank 9]

17 years ago #

nice find!

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