Filed under: Internet, Yahoo!, Social Software, Beta
The OpenID project got a large shot in the arm today as Yahoo! announced their support for the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. As of this day, there are a total of about 120 million OpenID accounts spread across services such as myopenid, WordPress.com, AOL (covered here before), and others. Yahoo! triples that number this day by becoming an OpenID provider and adding approximately 250 new OpenID enabled accounts. Yahoo! users can expect to be able to use the services in private beta on January 30.This means users will be able to log into more than 9,000 OpenID enabled sites with their Yahoo! username and password. For those of you who are unfamiliar with OpenID, it is a single sign on system for the internet. Meaning if you look to join and log-in to a new site, you can use one username and password across all these disperate websites. For more info about OpenID, see Wikipedia or the OpenID homepage.
This can be counted as a massive win for the OpenID project. We believe in the idea of OpenID, but it won’t be successful until the major players in the internet market hop on board. We hope to see the other massive companies such as Google and MSN hop on board and begin serving up some OpenID goodness.
[via TechCrunch]
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