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

[Allen Tom]

As Naveen mentioned, I've recently left Yahoo, but the Yahoo OpenID team is
in really good hands. Yahoo has publicly said that they want to make it
easier for users to authenticate using identities that they already have, so
I expect to see lots of really interesting things coming out of Yahoo in the
future.

Not everyone knows this, but my original prototype of Yahoo OpenID that I
built 3 years ago showed how users could log into Flickr using OpenID. It
worked great with AOL, LiveJournal, and MyOpenID - which where the the big
OPs at the time. I always thought that it made a lot of sense for sites with
user generated content and active communities (like Flickr, and many other
Yahoo properties) to be RPs - since lowering the barrier to participate in a
community (such as posting a comment on a Flickr photo) is essential
to acquiring new users.

So I'm really happy to see that what I originally had in mind for OpenID at
Yahoo is finally in production - and I hope to see support for 3rd party
logins on other Yahoo properties and support for other IdPs in the future.

Allen


On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:42 PM, SitG Admin <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
> wrote:

>
> Indeed, and kudos to Yahoo! - but speaking of Yahoo, your account (atom) at
> (@) Yahoo! corporate (yahoo-inc.com) doesn't work anymore. I'd assumed you
> had something to do with the change, but were you working from Yahoo!'s end,
> Google's, both?
>
>
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