[OpenID] Flickr users can now login with a Google account via OpenID

[Nat]

There are many flickr clients such as iPhoto. Could they be used in conjunction with Google ID? 

Also, is it possible to support OpenIDs in general? 

=nat @ San Francisco via iPhone

On 2010/10/31, at 20:37, Allen Tom <allentomdude at gmail.com> wrote:

> Because logging in is an extremely high value operation, sites like Yahoo are very cautious about making any changes to the login flow, since reducing the number of successful logins will have a very negative financial impact. 
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> In order to allow existing Flickr users to login with a Google Account, Flickr would need to support an Account Linking flow. Account Linking can get really messy, since the onboarding flow would need to ask first time users if they already have a Flickr account, and if so, have them go through the Yahoo Login flow to link the account (after having already gone through the Google OpenID flow). While there are some tricks that can be done to optimize the linking flow - for instance, checking to see if any existing Flickr accounts already have verified the Google Account's @gmail.com address, there are so many edge cases that we decided to defer this feature until after we could prove that people would actually want to login to Flickr using a 3rd party account.
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> For sites that don't have large legacy userbases, accepting 3rd party logins is a total nobrainer! Logging in with an existing account with rich profile data and services is far more valuable than registering a brand new local account.
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> Allen
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> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  It's not everything that we're hoping for, but I think it's somewhat unreasonable to imagine that any of the large service providers will be ready to just flip the switch and move entirely over to federated login without a more graduated approach to help users ease into that new situation.
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