Yahoo has just announced an expansion of what it calls the Yahoo Search “Open Ecosystem”.
Yahoo has been a leader for some time in the Web 2.0 space with several applications and innovations such as photo site Flickr and adoption of OpenID. Recently Yahoo opened up their search application for more customization by developers.
Today’s announcement marks a stronger level of committment to new standards that will support the growth and development of the semantic web through the adoption of microformats - basically formats that help standardize the way applications can interact with data. More»

Labels: developers, microformats, Open Source, openid, opensocial, Yahoo

If you are interested in OpenID, OAuth, OpenAuth and related technologies, come hear the high-powered panel on this subject at the WebGuild’s Web 2.0 Conference and Expo at the Santa Clara Marriott on January 29, 2008.
The distinguished panelists will be:

Johannes Ernst, Founder & CEO, NetMesh
George Fletcher, Chief Architect Identity Services, AOL
John Panzer, Technical Lead Manager, Google
Nico Popp, VP, Authentication Services, VeriSign
Shreyas Doshi, Sr. Product Manager, Identity More»

Labels: AOL, openid, Yahoo

Today was a big day for OpenID, a single identity framework, given its anouncement that Yahoo is joining OpenID. OpenID is an admirable effort which aims to provide a centralized Identity system for authentication which can be used by any web site. You can read about the details if you are new to OpenID. Now that Yahoo has decided to join it, it means that the almost 250 million user accounts which are present in the Yahoo database are now part of OpenID, which consequently, means that the almost More»

Labels: dataportability, Facebook, Open Source, openid