Yahoo! gives a bump to OpenID
Thursday, January 17th, 2008BetaNews | Yahoo to embrace OpenID standard for validating users
“All Yahoo IDs will be OpenIDs on January 30,” a Yahoo spokesperson confirmed to BetaNews late this morning, in a change-over that may elevate the whole issue of users’ online identities to a new level.Yahoo is calling its embrace of OpenID this morning a breakthrough in the field of Web user identity. Over the next few months, other Web sites that employ OpenID 2.0 validation, including all those not necessarily hosted by Yahoo, will be able to look to Yahoo as a validator of usernames.
Glad to see OpenId is really gaining traction. Its an open standard that ANY one can implement for FREE. Its a standard that is built on existing technologies, so any one who has a website already has the pieces they need to use this. And with Yahoo backing it looks like it will have the traction to be THE way authentication will be done on the Internet.
update:
I realize that I sometimes don’t explain things well, so I dug up this talk by Scott Kveton, CEO of JanRain , a player and developer of openid. He does a better job than me.
