Yahoo! starts limited test of OpenID SReg

Yahoo! announced a limited test of OpenID Simple Registration extention with Plaxo and Jyte this afternoon.  This limited test will allow Yahoo! users to have certain core account information optionally passed back to Plaxo or Jyte, for the pusrposes of registering on those sites in a more seemless fashion.  Yahoo! users will be permitted to pass Full Name, Nickname, Email Address, Gender, Language, and Timezone.

Here is an excerpt from the Yahoo Developer Network Blog:

Today, we are announcing the start of a limited test of the Simple Registration extension for the Yahoo! OpenID service. The Simple Registration extension allows OpenID RPs to request user profile data from the OpenID provider. Yahoo! will be providing Yahoo! OpenID users the ability to share the following Simple Registration fields for this initial test: Full Name, Nickname, Email Address, Gender, Language, and Timezone. The Yahoo! OpenID user will have full control on whether to share their profile data with the OpenID relying party. We will use the Yahoo! Profiles API to populate the user card, which will be presented on the Yahoo! OpenID Review and Confirm page.

Details in the YDN user faq: https://open.login.yahoo.com/openid/op/html/us/sreg_faq.php

Plaxo was quite complimentary of us in a blog post announcing this release:

This announcement comes on the heels of Yahoo’s pioneering usability studies on OpenID, which they published for everyone to benefit from (they even went a step further by hosting an OpenID UX Summit on their campus). And Yahoo! is eating their own dogfood–they also recently streamlined and clarified their own OpenID flow. These guys are on a roll, and they’ve been great to work with!

 

Here are the TheSocialWeb.TV guys talking about the announcement