It really would be great if instead of deepening their silo, Yahoo! had instead chosen to use OpenID.

i wonder how this compares to the google offering? might they support openid someday soon?

Developers can use something like Google’s Account Authentication or Yahoo’s BBAuth, but many would prefer to use a vendor neutral standard. Can you blame them?

+1

The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its 250m user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon.

they finally do something right, 2 years late.

In my mind, Gears can help us get there. While it started as a project by Google to evolve web browsers faster and add needed features like offline support, it’s grown beyond that with offline support now coming in HTML 5 and a new Geolocation API. Today Gears runs on half a dozen different browser/platform combinations including FireFox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and Android. If there was ever a developer platform to build an Open Source cross browser implementation of what OpenID support might look like, Gears seems like the place to do it. Not only does this mean that we’ll need to write less code to have it work in multiple browsers, but ideally if it became mature enough maybe the Gears team would choose to ship OpenID support as well? All of a sudden, the community could be down from a handful of browser plugins to one leading Open Source example.

suggests that gears may be the vector

Plaxo announced that early tests of its new OpenID login system had a 92% success rate – unheard of in the industry. OpenID’s usability problems appear closer than ever to being solved for good. This experimental method refers to big, known brands where users were already logged in, it requires 0 typing – just 2 clicks

ie, sites that are somewhat unattractive on their own benefit from the drive by of popular sites. what else is new?

Orange, one of the major mobile operator and ISP with 40m subscribers announced they would adopt OpenID. There was already a clear trend from big internet properties to adopt (Digg, Technorati Microsoft and AOL but also Yahoo and WikiPedia already announced that). But this is the first time that a major TelCo is taking that step.

this is good, but why you’d want to trust your identity to a blood-sucking, hidebound organization is unclear

Blogger now lets you enable OpenID-based commenting. This means that users of OpenID-enabled services — such as LiveJournal and WordPress — can comment on your blog using their accounts from those sites

i’m behind on my identity reading, but this may still have a shot at becoming a default on the interwebs

We’re exploring the many different ways we can integrate what we’ve demonstrated here into Movable Type, Vox, LiveJournal, and TypePad. For example, imagine using Movable Type to define your accounts elsewhere around the web, and then allowing your friends on those services to comment using OpenID and bypass your comment moderation queue. Or using Vox to easily republish the content you’ve created on Flickr, Twitter, and other such services and share it in one place with your neighborhood.

hopefully, the first of many. somewhere, marc canter is partying.

Appalachian is a Firefox add-on that adds the ability to manage and use several OpenIDs to ease the login parts of your browsing experience