Yahoo! announces OpenID support!
Earlier this morning, we announced that Yahoo! will become an OpenID Provider - thereby allowing our 200+ million users to sign in to any Relying Party web site that supports the OpenID 2.0 technology. As Jeremy Zawodny points out, its great to be finally be able to talk about it openly - though if we've run into each other at any of the recent IIWs, you probably suspected this was coming soon.
I am obviously excited about what our foray into OpenID means for our users, for the OpenID technology, and for the web in general. Our public (beta) product launch is coming up pretty soon and we are looking forward to getting lots of good input from the OpenID community and from our users. Stay tuned for much more...
Update - related posts:
Scott Kveton's guest post on Yodel Anecdotal - the official Yahoo! blog
Heya Shreyas, so glad to hear about yahoo supporting OpenID.. I think its a great technology, and should really ease the proliferation of increasingly more useful we application, as well as unification and information sharing.
Just so you know, I put a little writeup on my own blog too.. lets get the word out there!
Cheers
-Jeffrey
Posted by: Jeffrey | January 31, 2008 at 10:23 PM