Yahoo! adopts OpenID specifications

What is an OpenID?

According to Wikipedia,

OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system. Using OpenID-enabled sites, web users do not need to remember traditional authentication tokens such as username and password. Instead, they only need to be previously registered on a website with an OpenID "identity provider" (IdP). Since OpenID is decentralized, any website can employ OpenID software as a way for users to sign in; OpenID solves the problem without relying on any centralized website to confirm digital identity.

OpenID is increasingly gaining adoption among large sites, with organizations like AOL and Orange acting as a provider. In addition, integrated OpenID support has been made a high priority in Firefox 3 and OpenID can be used with Windows CardSpace, which is part of .NET Framework version 3.0 (the .NET Framework version 3.0 comes with Windows Vista by default and can be downloaded for Windows XP).

Now the latest news from Yahoo! is related to the future oriented thinking for using OpenID 2.0 norms. Here is a news from Yahoo to look at::

Yahoo is moving in a big way to embrace the new OpenID 2.0 specification, which eliminates the need for Web surfers to create separate IDs and logins at each of the Web sites, blogs and profile pages that they may visit during an online session.

Beginning Jan. 30, Yahoo's 248 million active registered users worldwide will be able to use a new beta test version of Yahoo ID to seamlessly sign in to hundreds of OpenID-compatible Web sites, the search engine giant said.

Web Standards and Implementation

Web Standards:

An ideal site built with Web Standards should be clean, light, CSS-driven, accessible, usable and search engine friendly.

Advantages of implemening Web Standards

• Expand your Audience
• Easier to Maintain
• Cheaper Hosting costs
• Better Search Engine Ranking
• Increase your Organization’s profile
• Cross-Browser compatibilty
• Improves Accessibility
• Simplified updating of Look and Feel
• Seperation of Presentation from the Content

Source: Vijay Nair's Homepage

Mobile Web Page

Mobile Web Page:

How to create a mobile web page?
Considering the display platform and formatting for mobile or PDA screens/resolutions mobile web-pages are designed using Mobile Markup Languages (MML) such as XHTML,WML, CHTML, PDA Complaint HTML etc.

Standards :
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has started a Mobile Web Initiative (MWI).The goal of the Mobile Web Initiative is to make Web access from a mobile device as simple,easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device.

Mobile Web Page Advertising Options:
Google Adwords have an option of Advertising on mobile. These are short text ads, shown on mobile devices and you can connect your mobile web page or business phone to it.Generally these words are limited to 12 to 18 characters ( double byte characters may vary the limit)