Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Yahoo and Google to provide OpenIDs

Another geeky posting I'm afraid. This time we have two articles from TechCrunch, both about OpenID.

The first is about Yahoo providing OpenID and the second about Google doing the same. I haven't tried this but it should allow you to sign into a huge number of websites using your yahoo or Google id. I.e. you don't have to create an id on every single site you visit.

The Google offering isn't quite as useful as it could be as they seem to be only allowing people who have blogs on Blogger (which Google owns) to use their id. I suppose this may change in the future.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's encouraging to see this, and it looks like they're both moving in the right direction. Whether they get there (which for me means both being relying parties on all their logins, not just providers) remains to be seen.

While the Google one appears to be only blogger at the moment, at least it appears they are allowing 3rd party OpenIDs (ie. they are a relying party), which Yahoo is not.