Yahoo! and Plaxo support OpenID, kinda…

By webhat

This I didn’t know, both Yahoo! and Plaxo support OpenID. I have another OpenID, or do I? When I tried to add the OpenID identifier to ClaimID I get the message:

Could not find OpenID server for [https://me.yahoo.com/<open_id>].

Which I naturally found a little strange. I tried the OpenID at and it worked. So I tried LiveJournal and got the message:

Sorry! You will not be able to login to this website as it is using an older version of the the OpenID technology. Yahoo! only supports OpenID 2.0 because it is more secure. For more information, check out the OpenID documentation at Yahoo! Developer Network.

Thanks to Yahoo! I did discover which now feeds these blog posts into my .

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