According to techcrunch and screenchoots, Yahoo account will be OpenID starting the end of january.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/17/yahoo-implements-openid-massive-win-for-the-project/

Do you think Google will do the same ? Blogger is OpenID compatible but will Google Accounts include OpenID ?

[Thread renamed from "Yahoo will soon be OpenId 2.0 provider" – Tony]

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Yahoo will start implementing OpenID on January 30th.

More at Techcrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/17/yahoo-implements-openid-massive-win-for-the-project/

the offical announcement is here

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=287698

I'm sure Google and Microsoft will add support for Open ID as well. They probably waited for the 2.0 version.

Just for kicks, I'm looking forward to the day I can log in to my Yahoo account with my Google sign-on name. :)

It seems odd to me that a project about unifying logon experiences is being implemented in this way...

I mean everyone is ending up with A LOT of different OpenIDs since all the sites want to provide them but not accept them.

I agree, this system is being implemented upside-down. Right now, I have 4 OpenIDs, but nowhere to use them. I think all the companies see the opportunity to track their customers closer, but really are not too interested in making the login process easier. By becoming a provider, they are able to track all other websites their users login to.

This blog could become one of the first to support OpenID. Just something simple like if you login, you can edit/delete a post for an hour. Just hoping.

> This blog could become one of the first to support OpenID. Just
> something simple like if you login, you can edit/delete a post for
> an hour.

Sounds like something for Philipp to get stuck into when he gets back from his skiing vacation... ;-)

"full bi-directional OpenID support for their services"

is certainly the challenge..lets say I intend to use my gmail id to log into my yahoo account ? who is going to host/translate my openid credentials ??

/pd: The OpenID provider, namely Google.

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/18/google-offers-openid-logins-via-blogger/

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Cool! Why through blogger though?

It's just the first step before they work on providing an openID for all gmail accounts and accepting open id as google accounts. they're are just some phishing vulnerabilities that need to be fixed.

And now The Telegraph – a UK newspaper – is going to be an OpenID provider too:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/jan08/telegraph_to_become_openid_provider.htm

Well, that's what the headline says – "Telegraph to become OpenID provider" – but the body of the post implies they'll accept them too:

<< By announcing that we will not only accept OpenIDs but also provide them, I really think it shows how serious we are about online developement. >>

Why is everyone jumping on the OpenID bandwagon all of a sudden?

[Edited comment: Just removed the part where I said they "wrongly state that if you have an OpenID you'll be able to login to Blogger" as that's not what they actually say.]

we should be carefull..

http://twitter.com/peterdawson/statuses/624068642

Yahoo launched openID but it doesn't seems to be working

Is it working for anyone?

Yahoo!'s initial OpenID service will be available in public beta on January 30, that is tomorrow.

I know and i went to the website to confirm the date, but they are allowing you to create an ID on the site today itself
they even took my flickr ID and gave me a openID URL

Strange...

Well, that's easy to hack now. All user id in one box.

Not working even on 31st of Jan
Seems like they are too much busy in laying off and forgot the date :)

Rohit, I just converted my yahoo to openid

it responded with "Your OpenID identifier is: < https://me.yahoo.com/a/[XXXXXXXX] ; where Xxxx is my actualy cryptstring

and then I can customrize that under the custom tab

"You can add one custom OpenID identifier to this Yahoo! account. After you create it, you cannot delete or edit it"

it seems to be live, @ 2.40AM EDT/31st Jan here..

funny..they still prompt for a signin seal creation...

"A sign-in seal is a secret message or photo that Yahoo! will display on this computer only. Look for it every time you sign in to make sure you're on a genuine Yahoo! site. If the message, photo, or colors are different, you may have landed on a phishing site"

How can that be using a seal when I might be using an openid for login to various sites ?

You may enter your OpenID on other sites, but your ID provider is Yahoo and the only place where you can authenticate it is at a Yahoo site.

But Inout, should not the authentication be 'brokered' ?? from source site to provider ??

OK
I gave it sometime and retried
its still not working for me

What I did is create a flickr URL also as my openID, asper the instruction given at the openid home of yahoo!

it says
Unable to find openid server for hxxp://www.flickr.com/photos/<myflickrid>