Sign into Yahoo! with your Facebook and Google login

Sign into Yahoo! with your Google and Facebook login

Today, Yahoo! announced that users can now log into the Yahoo Network using third-party user authentication with Facebook and Google logins (via OpenID).

With hundreds of millions of Facebook and Google users, it makes sense for every company, even an obvious competitor to include this access point. It’s also great for the user, as its one less username and password to remember.

A quote from their blog: From Yahoo!’s perspective, any signed-in user engaging with Yahoo! services is a valued user, whether she authenticates using a Yahoo!, Facebook, or Google ID.

Users will be able to log-in via Facebook or Google and comment on a Yahoo! News articles, play Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, or interact with photos on Flickr, including Flickr uploader. Yahoo! first introduced OpenID log-in with Google on Flickr in October 2010, and following the success of this integration, they’ve chosen to open it up across all Yahoo! platforms.

To initiate their new “one-click” sign-in simply click on the “Sign in with: Facebook or Google” icon on the Yahoo! login screen. You are then fully signed into Yahoo!.

However, a word to the wise- you still won’t be able to sign into a mobile or desktop client using Google OpenID.

Story by Courtney Boyd Myers

Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr (show all) Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally. Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter @CBM and Google +.