Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, the organisation set up to facilitate access to multiple online services with a single username and password.
The move follows Yahoo! last month announcing that its accountholders would be able to use any web site supporting OpenID without creating a separate username [...]
The Yahoo! OpenID (beta) which was announced earlier this month has just been launched. You can try it out right away.
This is expected to move the OpenID movement ahead considerably. All 250 million members of Yahoo are now able to log in to any website, not just Yahoo, that supports OpenID 2.0.
At this moment you [...]
Having to remember different passwords to sign onto various Web sites is a major annoyance in the Internet age.
On Thursday, a project aimed at ending the inconvenience by enabling a common log-in got a big boost when Yahoo Inc. unveiled plans to test the system starting Jan. 30.
The Sunnyvale company’s support gives the project, called [...]