Flickr Moving to Yahoo ID Login System
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Flickr, the photo publishing, sharing &#038; tagging network, has just announced that they will be cancelling their older email address based login system, and migrating over to Yahoo registered ID&#8217;s for users to sign in to Flickr. We&#8217;re making this change now to simplify the sign in process in advance of several large projects launching this [...]
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Microsoft may mess things up for Flickr, but Yahoo hasn't been so great either.
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Yahoo Local Updates With Tagging &#038; Photos Yahoo! Local today made some updates to its local search &#038; mapping offering with new &#8220;Collections&#8221; and &#8220;My Local Dashboard&#8221; features that enable its users to save, organize and discover information the way that they choose. The Flickrization of Yahoo is now expanding past normal search, MyWeb and niche [...]
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The possibility that Internet users may one day be able to safely use a single log-in and password for multiple web sites advanced Thursday. The OpenID Foundation, which is working to develop an identity-management system for the Web, announced that software giants Google, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined its executive board.
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Ping Identity Corporation today announced that Version 2 of its consumer  authentication framework, PingLogin, is now available for download from  its Web site, www.pingidentity.com.
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If you're using FlickrFan, you should have a copy of podcatcher.root in your Tool folder. If not now, at the top of the next hour (launch the OPML app so it can do the update). I want to get started with a small group of people, develop features, and then figure out how to broaden it, if that turns out to be the right thing to do. For now, I just want a testbed to develop, and a group of interested users. I've put together a brief cheat sheet for FlickrFan users. http://codecasting.org/podcatcher/00001.html  If you have a question please post it there and we'll try to get you the answer. Hope it works, and hope you like it.
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Blog: Flickr took Yahoo Photos' second-place ranking, but Photobucket remains No. 1.
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Blog: The arrival of the Yahoo Photos horde has disrupted the statistical-popularity contests on display at the Flickr camera finder site.
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UPDATE: Yahoo user names and passwords can soon be used to access Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework.
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Flickr helps Yahoo! get ready for its close-up.
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Yahoo appears close to implementing&#160;OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites.Yahoo controls a domain me.yahoo.com, which shows a short message indicating the company will act as an identity provider for OpenID.Code on pages at Flickr.com, owned by Yahoo, could also let a person use their Flickr login and profile for logging into other OpenID-compatible sites. The code can be seen by viewing the source of Flickr photostream pages, and points to&#160;https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth.OpenID, an open-source project, has gained support&#160;from two other major Internet players, Microsoft and Google. However, those companies are not widely providing support on their sites for OpenID yet.But an early implementation of OpenID by Yahoo could provide a spark for broader support, some say.&quot;I expect Yahoo&#39;s implementation to be a major influence in encouraging OpenID 2 adoption,&quot; wrote Simon Willison, a freelance Web consultant and developer who used to work for Flickr. In January last year, Willison launched idproxy.net, a Web site that links Yahoo IDs and OpenIDs.OpenID is referred to as a decentralized system since no one company or entity controls all of the identity information. It gives users more power to determine who they want to share their identity with and avoids the potential security problems of having a massive amount of data locked up in a single database. The system is also free.Web sites acting as an identity provider for OpenID give users a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator). When a person encounters another Web site supporting OpenID, they can enter that URL along with the password they have registered with the identity provider, which is then verified in order to login at the new site.The person is then allowed to carry their profile or other information into the new Web site, a concept known as single sign-on. It means that people may need fewer passwords but would be able to securely share their data and login on more Web sites.A variety of companies and Web sites are supporting OpenID, such as AOL, LiveJournal, Technorati and mobile operator Orange, which is owned by France T&#233;l&#233;com, according to the OpenID Web site. Hundreds of other Web sites are also using OpenID.Yahoo could not be reached for comment.&#160;
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ImageWell, the lightweight image editing software for bloggers, now supports Flickr, SmugMug and ImageShack.
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In coming months, Flickr users will be able to edit their photos online with Picnik's technology as well as share, tag and discuss them.
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Search and services giant Yahoo will become an OpenID provider at the end of January, providing a huge boost to the nascent user identity management system. OpenID lets users maintain one login and password in one location, then use that universal ID to login to all of their favorite websites.
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DevShed has posted the third part of their series looking at accessing the Yahoo! web services via PHP5 scripts. This time it's a focus on using the image search capabilities.   In this third chapter of the series, I'm going to continue exploring in detail other helpful web services offered by Yahoo!, such as those focusing on searching images and videos. Also, I will demonstrate how they can be queried directly from a basic PHP 5 application and process the corresponding search results by utilizing the same group of array handling functions that you saw in the previous article of the series.   Just like in previous articles of the series, they make a simple class that connect to the Yahoo! web services and request search details back about their queries (like "Madonna").
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The Yahoo photo-sharing service will soon be retooled to make more use of geotagged photos.
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Blog: Prototype software sends recent images taken in the vicinity of a Flickr member to that person's mobile phone and keeps people up to date with contacts' Flickr photos.