Yahoo To Open Up Email Authentication

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday September 30, 2006 @04:10PM from the let-a-thousand-mashups-bloom dept.

Aditi.Tuteja writes, "Yahoo has announced it will give away the browser-based authentication used in its email service, considered to be the company's 'crown jewels.' Yahoo made the announcement ahead of a 24-hour 'Yahoo Hack Day,' where it had invited more than 500 mostly youthful outside programmers to build new applications using Yahoo services. Considering the different needs of its huge user base (257 million people use Yahoo Mail), Yahoo has decided it can't build or buy enough innovation, so they are enlisting the worldwide developer community." The code will be released late in 2006. Yahoo notes that there are 'no security risks' since they keep absolute control of usernames and passwords.

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Let Yahoo solve this first... by bogaboga · 2006-09-30 16:36 · Score: 1, Redundant

Of late, I have encountered trouble logging into Yahoo Mail. In fact, this has been going on for three months. Before Yahoo begins talking about or even blowing their own trumpet about their "Crown Jewels", they should at least make their [mail] service as reliable as Google's Gmail. For the record, I am not impressed with their new email interface either.
The other thing I'd like to see is full support for Mozilla's Firefox browser as far as Yahoo's Launchcast service is concerned. Don't mention that GreaseMonkey extension. All I want to see is full support. They are doing a fiar job when it comes to video on their news service. But music is still wanting.