SDA India is an online resource for Software, Development,IT, Architecture, Open Source, Mobile, Security, Databases, Delphi, C, OS, Asp, .Net, Php, Xml, Java
From the News Desk
Friday, 18. January 2008
Yahoo Says It Will Support Open ID 2.0
In one of the most significant moves yet in the growing push toward service interoperability on the Web, Yahoo announced that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal Internet login.
People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter online.Users can customize OpenID identifiers on me.yahoo.com or type "www.yahoo.com" or "www.flickr.com" on sites that support the platform.
Yahoo said users will be protected by the company's sign-in seal while they surf the Web. Web sites can also add an option to allow users to sign in with their Yahoo ID. E-mail and instant messaging addresses are withheld as users log in, and that creates a barrier to phishing or other attacks, Yahoo said.
Yahoo is partnering with Plaxo and JanRain (a developer of OpenID tools and code libraries) to make the functionality work right from the first day of the beta launch.
"Yahoo's commitment to an open web is a significant validation of the OpenID movement and Yahoo's adoption of the standard today immediately triples the total number of people able to use OpenID," said Scott Kveton, chairman of the Board of Directors for the OpenID Foundation, in a statement.
Yahoo's initial OpenID service will be available in public beta in the last week of January 2008.
Other major players that have expressed interest and gotten involved in varying degrees with OpenID include Google, Six Apart, AOL, Sun, Novell and Microsoft.
People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter online.Users can customize OpenID identifiers on me.yahoo.com or type "www.yahoo.com" or "www.flickr.com" on sites that support the platform.
Yahoo said users will be protected by the company's sign-in seal while they surf the Web. Web sites can also add an option to allow users to sign in with their Yahoo ID. E-mail and instant messaging addresses are withheld as users log in, and that creates a barrier to phishing or other attacks, Yahoo said.
Yahoo is partnering with Plaxo and JanRain (a developer of OpenID tools and code libraries) to make the functionality work right from the first day of the beta launch.
"Yahoo's commitment to an open web is a significant validation of the OpenID movement and Yahoo's adoption of the standard today immediately triples the total number of people able to use OpenID," said Scott Kveton, chairman of the Board of Directors for the OpenID Foundation, in a statement.
Yahoo's initial OpenID service will be available in public beta in the last week of January 2008.
Other major players that have expressed interest and gotten involved in varying degrees with OpenID include Google, Six Apart, AOL, Sun, Novell and Microsoft.
