Zoho No Longer Requires Accounts. Sign In With Your Yahoo Or Google ID

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed May 14, 2008 11:31 AM EDT

Article Source: TechCrunch

Office productivity suite Zoho removed the need to create an account to use their services today - you can now log in to any of their products using a Google or Yahoo account. Sign in is completed via Yahoo's and Google's authentication APIs.

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Andy Min

Interesting that they picked Google, which is their numer 1 competitor.

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1 vote

#1 - Wed May 14, 2008 11:36 AM EDT

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FDBryant3

Interesting but I'd be more interested if it was through OpenID.

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2 votes

#2 - Wed May 14, 2008 12:03 PM EDT

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Andy Min

I asked Zoho evangelist Raju Vegesna why they don't just adopt OpenID to handle authentications instead. He says they will, soon, but also want to integrate directly with the most requested third parties to address users immediate needs (and it is still a pain to log in with OpenID). Vegesna also says they may integrate directly with other third parties, such as Microsoft and Facebook, in the future as well based on user requests.

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1 vote

#2.1 - Wed May 14, 2008 12:19 PM EDT

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MerelyHuman

Zoho only sacrificed that part of the business because they're hoping to get acquired by Google =) Trust me. I'm working with a Zoho competitor.

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#3 - Mon May 19, 2008 5:06 AM EDT

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