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[_] OpenID gaining mainstream traction

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 10:45:02 GMT 2008

There's been a couple of moves in OpenID-land in the last week.

First Yahoo! made Yahoo! member accounts usable as OpenIDs:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39292261,00.htm

Then The Daily Telegraph (gadzooks!) announced it will be an OpenID
provider and consumer* from February.

Is this the point where people say "actually, maybe this isn't such a
bad idea after all"?

Tim

* i.e. you can sign in to MyTelegraph with any OpenID, and use your
MyTelegraph login to sign in to any other OpenID-supporting site