slef - 2:10 pm on Jan 20, 2008 (gmt 0)

This seems like a good idea. Yahoo has long been a pain because it seems to require YahooIDs for far too much. It's not hard to sign into a few favourite sites, but Yahoo hasn't been a favourite site for me for a long time and probably never will be again, so I really can't be bothered putting it into a proper security manager and maintaining a YahooID. If I could use my OpenID there instead of a YahooID, I'd probably visit Yahoo more.

However, this news item makes it sounds like Yahoo won't be accepting OpenIDs where they currently use YahooIDs - they'll just be letting people use their YahooIDs as OpenIDs. That's nowhere near as useful.

I'll wait and see what actually happens on 2008-01-30.