Yahoo! OpenID service now available as public beta

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Yahoo! just launched their OpenID service. 248 million users will now have the ability to login to any website that supports OpenID 2.0 authentication (link) and that my friend, is a huge boost to OpenIDs initiative.

Here’s Jeremy Zawodny and Allen Tom discussing OpenID at Yahoo.

 

Visit http://openid.yahoo.com now and setup your account. When I get the time, I’ll implement OpenID to all the sites I maintain. Should be a very cool addition to any site. Jump in the bandwagon now!

–aj

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One Response to “Yahoo! OpenID service now available as public beta”

  1. Openid » Yahoo! OpenID service now available as public beta Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    [...] ajb{log}: learn something new each day wrote an interesting post today on Yahoo! OpenID service now available as public betaHere’s a quick excerpt Yahoo! just launched their OpenID service. 248 million users will now have the ability to login to any website that supports OpenID 2.0 authentication (link) and that my friend, is a huge boost to OpenIDs initiative. Here’s Jeremy Zawodny and Allen Tom discussing OpenID at Yahoo. Visit http://openid.yahoo.com now and setup your account. When I get the time, I’ll implement OpenID to all the sites I maintain. Should be a very cool addition to any site. Jump in the bandwagon now! –aj [...]

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