Yahoo's Browser Based Authentication Launched

Last night Yahoo! Developer Network today. I Browser Based Authentication or BBAuth as we like to call it. Our Browser Based Authentication (BBAuth) is a generic mechanism that will allow users to grant 3rd party web-based applications access the Yahoo! data. There's already a similar mechanism in place on Flickr and used by services like MOO. BBAuth is the protocol that's going to open the door to doing the same thing for many Yahoo! branded services in the coming months. Stay tuned for those announcements. :-) Beyond that, BBAuth also makes it possible to use Yahoo! as a single sign-on for your site, thus removing a barrier to entry for a whole lot of people (over 200 million to be exact). This is still fairly experimental, so we'd love to get your feedback and input on how to make it even more useful. The first two Yahoo! services supporting BBAuth are API) and Hack Day. And special thanks to Launching the Un-Launch-Able post for his take. Bookmark murdok: Jeremy Zawodny is the author of the popular Yahoo! Search blog as well.