OK - so I hate to say I told you so - but at last week’s meeting I insinuated that Yahoo HAD to support open identity standards to survive and continue your leadership towards a new open Yahoo.

I suggested Sxip Networks - and you (Randy) replied with ‘maybe Liberty’.

Well may I make a suggestion that you take a design from our GoingOn playbook and go for the all tits out, Identity Hub approach.

I mean why support only one identity standard? Certainly whatever the hell Microsoft and Kim Cameron come up with - you should support! Right? And my friends at the Identity Commons would LOVE IT if you’d support their i-names standard.

And I’m sure you’ve heard of OpenID from SixApart.

All these identity standards can easily be supported so your Flickr users don’t have to get all pissed off and feel like they’re being locked in. They should feel that Yahoo is their hub, their center of the digital ID universe.

That’s what the new Yahoo should do.

And oh, while you’re at it - it’s time to support Jabber - too.

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