Yahoo Announces Support OpenID

OpenID?! You may ask what is OpenID? OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience. In short, you can remember one password and username to login ever site support OpenID login.
Some big companies that have been supporting this open identification standard are Google’s Blogger, Plaxo, AOL..etc., and the last company to do so is Yahoo.

Now, Yahoo that has 248 million members announced its support of the standard, starting with a public beta launch on January 30th. What’s best, it will work both ways: you will be able to use your Yahoo ID as an OpenID identity login to other OpenID-supporting sites, or use other OpenID identity to login yahoo account.
Don’t have yahoo account? Never mind, you can apply other OpenID identity.
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January 18th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Yahoo 終於宣布採用OpenID. 甚麼是OpenID呢? 簡單的講就是一個跨網站的個人ID. 因為每一個網站都需要登入密碼帳號, 如果全部需要登入的網站都使用OpenID登入的話, 你就只要記住一個自己的OpenID, 用來登入其他的有支援的網站.
根據yahoo的說法, 你可以使用其他的OpenID登入Yahoo account, 或是使用Yahoo account當作一個OpenID登入其他有支援OpenID的網站.
當然,如果你不是Yahoo 的使用者, 你可從者裡獲得其他免費的OpenID.