OpenID momentum continues to
grow. Yahoo! announced
that Google users can now sign up for a new account on Flickr’s photo-sharing service with
their Google Account information, eliminating the need to create a new username and password.
Flickr joins other websites such as Plaxo and Facebook that also support this simpler
registration process for Google users.
Google and Yahoo! are
two of the many companies who have been involved with the OpenID community’s efforts to
improve the process for how users log in and sign up for online services. For example, last
month Google announced
its use of OpenID to make it simpler for Yahoo! users to sign up for Google services.
While Google doesn’t yet support the use of OpenID for replacing passwords on
its own sites, we’re involved in the OpenID community’s efforts to research how to best
implement that type of support. Yahoo!’s announcement today is another step in defining those
best practices. We look forward to discussing this new feature at next week’s Internet Identity Workshop where
the identity community gathers to discuss how to further accelerate the adoption of standards
like OpenID.
