<p>Yeah, there&#8217;s missing only Microsoft for having all the <a href="http://buzz.ideias3.com">buzzwords</a> in this post&#8217;s title. But I won&#8217;t be discussing that polemical bid.</p>

<p>Yahoo has <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/01/30/yahoo-open-id-beta-launch/">launched</a> their <a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com/tag/openid">0penID</a> support and I hope the <em>beta</em> there means it&#8217;s going to be improved!</p>

<p>I&#8217;m doing some OpenID-related stuff and I&#8217;m wondering if I should recommend Yahoo as a OpenID provider. First of all, you need to activate OpenID in you account (<a href="http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-feature-blogger-as-openid-provider.html">just like with Blogger</a>). So allowing the users just to enter their URLs and login would be perfect, but I guess they are just doing this for some stats or so. But for regular users having to active something may make them think twice (could be good or not).</p>

<p>One thing that a multi-website entity like yahoo did was to allow users to choose their OpenID url. So I can pick between me.yahoo.com/alcides and my <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/alcidesfonseca">flickr <span class="caps">URL</span></a>. That&#8217;s very sweet from Yahoo since they are admitting having flickr in your <span class="caps">URL</span> is cooler than the <em>crazy</em> Yahoo. But I find a problem here. Isn&#8217;t the &#8220;id&#8221; in OpenID for identity? <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/alcidesfonseca">http://flickr.com/photos/alcidesfonseca</a> doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with my identity, it&#8217;s just a place to display my photos. But <a href="http://flickr.com/people/alcidesfonseca">http://flickr.com/people/alcidesfonseca</a> does! It has all my personal information, even my hCard! So, Mr Yahoo/Flickr Folks, why do we use the photos page instead of our profile page? I know you have a rel=&#8220;me&#8221; link to the profile page, but it&#8217;s just not the same thing!</p>