{"id":109,"date":"2008-01-30T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/thanks-yahoo"},"modified":"2008-01-30T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T09:01:00","slug":"thanks-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/thanks-yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Yahoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nice folks at Yahoo! indeed know how to be nice in a collaborative community, (i.e. the OpenID community). Their big <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/yahoo-openid-beta.html\">Yahoo! OpenID Provider service now available as a public beta<\/a> announcement today acknowledges a lot of people &#8230; to quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to thank the OpenID community for educating us over the past 1 year and helping us make this happen. In particular, we&#8217;d like to say &quot;Thank you&quot; to Bill Washburn, Brian Ellin, David Recordon, Dick Hardt, Johannes Ernst, Johnny Bufu, Joseph Smarr, Josh Hoyt, Kaliya Hamlin, Kevin Turner, Larry Drebes, Mike Graves, Scott Kveton, and Simon Willison.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not every company as big as Yahoo! would acknowledge all of us little guys. And so Shreyas and his team of Yahoos very much deserve a round of applause and thanks. (After the 248 million-strong applause has died down ;-)).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, I gotta say I&#8217;m still very amazed. It was just over three years ago that I looked at that idea of a URL-based, decentralized, simple identity again that I had put aside a year earlier, and decided &quot;perhaps there is something to this after all&quot;. And started <a href=\"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/2004\/12\/01#lid-online\">blogging about it<\/a>. Brad Fitzpatrick started the OpenID mailing list in the following May, putting 7 million LiveJournal users online with a URL-based identity shortly thereafter. Then VeriSign, and AOL, and France Telecom\/Orange, even Google\/Blogger. And now all of Yahoo &#8230; not exactly bad, from 1 to almost 400 million in just over three years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nice folks at Yahoo! indeed know how to be nice in a collaborative community, (i.e. the OpenID community). Their big Yahoo! OpenID Provider service now available as a public beta announcement today acknowledges a lot of people &#8230; to quote: We&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to thank the OpenID community for educating us&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}