OpenID2 becomes even more important
I have been a MyYahoo user since it’s inception. 3 years ago I went into Yahoo - more or less pleading with them to open up MyYahoo, turn it into a Portals 2.0 - DLA - and ultimately put Yahoo into the lead in the open web.
Well they’ve bought lots of companies - but with the exception of Flickr - haven’t really executed on any sort of comprehensive Web 2.0 strategy. The embarassing Y!360 aside - their hearts have been in the right place and now we’re FINALLY seeing a direct statement of support for OpenID2.
Notice the 2.
Though they aren’t really taking advantage of any of the advanced features of OpenID2 - hopefully they will in the future.
Specifically - I want to be able to move profile, social graph and other personal data both OUT OF and back INTO MyYahoo - or whichever Yahoo social network I’m participating in.
Yahoo’s 150M+ monthly uniques and 500M+ MyYahoo acount members will thank them for this freedom and power.
Now the ticker starts “when do they open up MyYahoo?”
No where in any of your specs and release do you mention anything other than single sign-on. But OpenID2 is much more than that!
You see - OpenID2 is just a building block. Single sign-on is great, but not enough. Keep going dudes and dudesses!
January 17th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi Marc - glad you like the OpenID2.0 announcement. There are more than a few reasons we made that choice over 1.1 which should become clearer over time. Not the least of which is the no-need-to-remember-a-URL feature…
Yes, I know you think you told us first.
Yes, we’re going slower than you think we should - but we are getting there. It’s a very, very big ship, after all.
2008 is gonna be an amazing year for Yahoo! in terms of being social and open.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
More later,
Randy
January 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
So great to see Yahoo! going open. Congrats, Randy.
And Marc, thanks for your tireless advocacy!
January 17th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Here’s my take on this Single Sign on / OpenID thing… Unless my friends are able to login to flickr etc with THEIR ID of choice, I will not be sending out invites to them to look at my flickr photos. This applies to any social site I may be a member of.
It’s annoying enough that I have to have multiple ids for the sites I participate in but I refuse to make my friends sign up to each site I’m a member of inorder for me to share my stuff with them. So until yahoo, google, twitter, facebook etc get on board with this open identity thingie, their membership isn’t going to be boosted by me.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Uh… what Randy said.
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