Yahoo backs OpenID
OK this isn’t ‘new’ news, being as it was announced last week, but I was jetlagged then, OK??! This is hugely important in the move for portability of data across different networks. OpenID is an open source initiative aimed at creating one online identity that can operate across multiple social networks. It acknowledges that there is an ecology of different networks that people like to belong to, and we’re getting fed up maintaining different profiles and logins. Now that Yahoo have moved this way, I’ll be able to log into Flickr, WordPress and other sites using the same ID…
~ by Stephen on January 22, 2008.
Posted in Social web, User experience, Web 2.0, digital, internet
Tags: social networks, digital identity, open id, yahoo
I love openid. the only downside is that there are a number of openid ‘hosts’.
You can use your wordpress blog url, but I recommend http://www.myopenid.com as it allows you to manage multiple personas. you can have a Pro persona and a Social and whatever else you like. I think that as we blur social and professional personas, this is a good move by myopenid
Hi Stephen, hope you’re well mate. Yep really, really good move. More and more sites are coming on board with OpenID - by the day. It’s naturally still in its infancy and much too early to be understood by the average internet user, but soon I imagine it will be as common place as RSS feeds.