Johannes Ernst on January 18th, 2008

A friend of mine sent me this news clipping from the Beirut-published Daily Star: Yahoo user to access 10,000 websites by single sign-on By Xinhua News Agency If you have a Yahoo user name and password, you can access almost 10,000 websites that suport the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework by a single sign-on, media [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 17th, 2008

Seems like we can finally answer all the "what about Yahoo" questions in the affirmative: Yahoo goes on-line with their OpenID implementation. Mike Arrington calls it a "Massive Win for the Project" and writes: The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 7th, 2008

It appears that all Flickr user pages are now OpenIDs. They identify https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth as the OpenID endpoint. I don’t have a Flickr account, so I can’t try it out … Chalk up another so many millions of OpenIDs in the market … (Anybody know how many users Flickr has these days? Somebody called Todd claims [...]

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