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Week in Review + Today’s Yahoo & OpenID News

This week… keeps on surprising me. So, in review:

  • Monday: Zuckerborg’s boring and awkward “60 Minutes” reactions
  • Tuesday: Macworld: MacBook Air and et cetera
  • Wednesday: MySQL for $1 Billion by Sun, BEA for $8.5 billion by Oracle

And today:

The Obligatory OpenID logo

I guess I should start an OpenID related post with an OpenID logo… like every single other freaking tech blog…

I guess Yahoo! is in. OpenID has been one of those lovely ideas that’s been taking quite a while to take off. Maybe one year from now, this poll from Mashable will change dramatically:

Mashable's Poll on the Usage of OpenID

I selected Never. I’m willing to be a lot of the web applications I use already implement OpenID, and yet I never ever seem to actually need it. I wonder what the killer application is going to be for OpenID, because the way things are now doesn’t really bother the 95% of the Internet users just yet.

So many of these great ideas… sometimes never seem to take off. We’ll see if the Semantic Web will be as awesome it is going to be, with applications like shift-space.