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Yahoo's Newest Strategy: Lots and Lots of Facebook
The future of OpenID is not less certain as Facebook has partnered with Yahoo to push its Facebook Connect signon service. This will probably be the thing that ends my use of Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo. As Webmonkey's Michael Calore writes, "Yahoo stated in a blog post Wednesday that it intends to roll Facebook Connect into its properties worldwide, so we should expect the services to be activated incrementally." I will not be using a Facebook identity to connect with other services, because I don't trust Facebook to behave itself. More from ReadWrite Web (see also Mashable), which describes Google's deal, announced a few hours later, to use Twitter identities. "The short-term trade of giving more control to two big social networks, in exchange for traffic and ad money, may not serve anyone well in the long run." Adam Ostrow, Mashable, December 7, 2009 4:29 p.m.. [Link] [Tags: Books, OpenID, Yahoo!, Flickr] [Previous][Next]Comments
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