Am I missing something huge, or did Yahoo indeed went to great lengths to make their OpenID *and* OAuth support utterly useless (borderline harmful, in fact) for any purposes related to, eh, identification? It's called "Open *ID*", for Pete's sake. The consumer should be given an unique, recognizable, human readable identification name or URL or something. What they give you instead is a pair of Last name, First name (practically guaranteed to be non-unique, and user-editable anyway), and God-awful random token a few miles long, useless for every practical intent and purpose. No usable nickname, no profile link, no email, nothing. WTF were they thinking? So okay, OpenID was a damn mess to start with, but then they go ahead and implement the new shiny OAuth spec, hooray! Oh wait, here we go again: no nickname, no profile link, and an ugly useless random token. F-ng atrocious.
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