Large web services from the likes of Google, Yahoo and others love to tout their OpenID support. But when these companies say "support," sometimes what they mean is that you can use them as an OpenID provider – and store all of your precious personal information on their servers.
What's much less common from the big companies are sites that let you sign in with OpenID. Today the popular photo sharing site Flickr has taken a small step in that direction.
The site has stopped short of true OpenID support, though that appears to be the end goal. For now its offering a way to sign in with your Google OpenID. Yahoo, which owns Flickr, is using Google's authentication APIs to power the sign-in experience. Sadly, the new feature is only available for those signing up for Flickr. If you've already got a Flickr account, you have to authenticate using your original login.
Given that most of you probably already have Flickr accounts, today's news isn't all that exciting. But hopefully, it means the wheels are turning at Flickr and one day you'll be able to sign in with any OpenID account.
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