A Frog in the Valley

Rumors abound that Yahoo! will make a major announcement about OpenID today at CES. It looks like at the very least you’ll be able to use your Flickr user page URL to log in anywhere that supports OpenID login. The code is live, view source of any user page and search for OpenID and you’ll find it.

It sure help to know that the session Open ID for Large Providers at the last Internet Identity Workshop was moderated by a Yahoo engineer… and well attended with tech talent from AOL, MS and Google too (and a few other key OpenID actors too). That’s the awesome thing happening right now, geeks have a lot of power within these large organizations, hackers of code and of large systems with complex algorithms (often called politics).

[Via Flickr to Authenticate OpenID - Is This The Yahoo! CES Announcement? - ReadWriteWeb]