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19th January 2008 - Link Blog

Yahoo! supporting OpenID 2.0 but not 1.1. Yahoo!’s Allen Tom outlines the reasons Yahoo! are supporting OpenID 2.0 but not OpenID 1.1.

Posted 19th January 2008 at 9:10 am

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