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 reported Friday. The service starting Jan. 30 will reduce the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter online.

Notice that Lebanese paper got their article from the Chinese news agency (with the factual error that there are nowhere close to 10,000 OpenID 2.0 sites, but never mind that) And that is how Scott Kveton, fellow board member and chairman of the OpenID Foundation, got quoted on a Lebanese website. (You didn’t think that would ever happen, Scott, did you!)

I haven’t made it that far; years ago I was once interviewed by that same newspaper but I don’t think they ever printed the interview.

But as my friend said who forwarded the article: "As you say, this is becoming unstoppable!"