Yahoo and Flickr Merge Passwords

In the "thank God for small favors" department, I learned today from the FlickrBlog that if you have a Yahoo user name and password, it's going to get you in to Flickr without you having to go through all that sign-up/remember password and user name for yet another site nonsense. From Mr. Butterfield:

"As of now, anyone can log in to Flickr using their Yahoo! ID. New users will have to use their Yahoo! ID (or create a new one if they don't have one); older users can continue to use their existing Flickr.com account details to log in, or choose to merge their Flickr.com accounts and Yahoo! IDs together. One note: Existing users will be able to keep their existing screen names on Flickr whether they choose to merge accounts now or not - you don't have to change your name."

Yeah, baby!

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