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

[Dick Hardt]

I could not find any way to use any of my Google accounts to log into my
existing Flickr account -- I only see where I can create a new Flickr
account with a Google account.

While it is nice to see progress -- IMHO we are a LONG ways from solving
identity from the user's point of view -- and that leads to my concern --
although it was alot of work to get this done -- I would be surprised if
your average user would consider this an improvement -- and may lead to more
confusion as they become uncertain as to which provider they have used at
which site.

-- Dick

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Allen Tom <allentomdude at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at lists.openid.net
> http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/attachments/20101030/100ac311/attachment.html>