Some good news regarding OpenID have been reported the last two days. Two major media and internet brands have adopted OpenID.
Yahoo! Becomes an OpenID Provider
If you are reading tech blogs regularly you have read the news somewhere else already: Yahoo! will become an OpenID provider by the end of the month. This is really good news as almost 250 million users with a Yahoo! account will have an OpenID then. Yahoo! simply turns its IDs – the current login to Yahoo! – into OpenIDs.
We don’t know the exact details of the OpenID implementation yet, though a few things are known already:
- OpenIDs will be very short: yahoo.com
- Flickr – a Yahoo! property – will also work as an OpenID: flickr.com
- Only OpenID 2.0 will be suppported
- Yahoo! won’t accept logins with other OpenIDs (yet)
- Some phishing-prevention features are built in
I am sure we will have a closer look at Yahoo! once OpenID support is live. Maybe we can gather enough information to add Yahoo! to the Provider Comparison page (any Yahoo! developers reading here?).
By the way, what will happen to Simon Willison’s idproxy.net project which is using Yahoo! IDs as OpenIDs already?
Login to CNN Political Market with an OpenID
It is possible to log in to CNN’s Political Market with an OpenID now. Unfortunately users have to sign up for an account first and then associate an OpenID with it. Admittedly, this could be done a lot easier. I tested it yesterday and it works great, though. Maybe this is a first step of OpenID adoption at CNN.
[via David Recordon]
That’s strange. I just tested it again and it works. I logged out of Political Market, disapproved it at my provider and logged in again. Everything works as expected.
Or it’s fixed already.