TypePad IDs are TypeKey IDs!
MovableType, Technology, TypePad, Weblogs 04/24/2004 |Has this information been made public yet?
Mark Pilgrim’s b-links pointed to this post that uses Six Apart’s new TypeKey comment registration system. Even before reading the post itself, I noticed the “sign in” link for TypeKey, and since I’m curious about how it is going to function, I figured I’d see if I could set up an account.
I hit the sign in link, and then went to the registration page. When I put in my usual login name, though, I was told that that ID was already in use. Since I hadn’t signed up for TypeKey previously, this came as something as a surprise to me.
Suddenly curious, I went back to the sign in page and tried logging in using my TypePad login — and what do you know, it worked! Nifty — apparently, anyone who uses TypePad to run their weblog auto-magically has a TypeKey login.
(Moments later…) Aha — apparently I wasn’t the first person to discover this: Michel Vuijlsteke pointed this out in the comment thread. Damn, and here I thought I was getting a scoop…
(A few more moments later…) Argh — David Ely beat me to it too. 
One downside I’m seeing right away: when I leave a TypeKey-authenticated comment, my name shows as “djwudi” rather than as “Michael Hanscom”, and I can’t seem to find a way to change that. Hmmmm…
So now the question becomes, when to TypePad users get to start playing with TypeKey on our weblogs?
iTunes: “All Tomorrow’s Parties” by Apoptygma Berzerk (2000, 5:05).
[See also: Veronica Moser, Type Key Spammer | TypeKey broken? | LiveJournal/OpenID Authenticated Commenting | Adding to the TypeKey fray | About the server switch ]
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6 Responses to “TypePad IDs are TypeKey IDs!”
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April 24th, 2004 at 5:40 am
If you log in to typekey you can set up your profile.
April 24th, 2004 at 8:15 am
It seems like there isn’t any way to remove links from the TypeKey profile. It just seems to be grabbing TypeLists and insterting them.
April 24th, 2004 at 10:43 am
Thanks David! Got mine all set up.
Joel — for me, TypeKey was grabbing an old Link TypeList that I wasn’t using anymore. When I deleted it, I was able to customize the link. If it’s grabbing a TypeList that you’re using, though, that’s obviously not going to be a likely option.
April 24th, 2004 at 11:06 am
yeah I’ve been playing around with it for a little while and noticed that now two new TypeLists “Sites I Enjoy” and “My Sites” have been created… but they don’t correspond to the TypeKey profile yet but I guess that’s how it will work.
April 25th, 2004 at 4:30 pm
you can change your displayed name with the new nickname option in Typepad.
April 28th, 2004 at 12:15 am
Then there are those of us who no longer use Typepad and so are incapable of going in and doing anything to our old Typelists and therefore have to simply disable large portions of our Typepad profile.