Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID – quite a big announcement for OpenID fans. This starts in beta on 30th January – Plaxo will be one of the first services that will allow you to use the OpenID aspect of your Yahoo account to authenticate.

For those who haven’t come across OpenID, it is a way of using a single ‘identity’ across a number of services, with the control of the OpenID resting largely with the user, rather than with an organisation.

The Official OpenID site has a better explanation than I have time for here…

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