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I find that unlike most bloggers, Ted actually is pretty smart about what users like and don't like. OpenID is cluttered. It takes longer to use it than it doe
by unalone 18y ago
I find that unlike most bloggers, Ted actually is pretty smart about what users like and don't like.
OpenID is cluttered. It takes longer to use it than it does to just reregister every single time. Even Clickpass doesn't speed things up. It's hailed as brilliant because it's open, but it's poorly implemented to a fault.
I argued in another thread that Facebook Connect was the technology to bet on. It's closed, but it actually offers a one-click login. The people in the comments thread, it seemed at the time, were evenly split into two camps: people who had used both and agreed, and people who disagreed because FConnect wasn't an open format.
Ted's swearing also comes across well to me (and, it would seem, to a lot of other people). I like that he gets worked up over this. It cuts out a lot of bullshit and sounds like he genuinely cares about the things he writes about.
- aston 18y agoJust curious, what's poorly implemented about Clickpass?
- unalone 18y agoNothing, actually. It's the best one there is. That said, it works best when the receiving site uses the ClickPass button: without that, the login still takes longer than it ought to. With the button, it's as fast as Facebook Connect, but it has the downside that fewer users are using it, and that it offers no service BESIDE login. Facebook has an edge there, too, in that it offers functionality that users want to actively use, so FConnect is a logical extension rather than a brand-new concept.
- thorax 18y agoI think when he said "It's hailed as brilliant because it's open, but it's poorly implemented to a fault" he was talking about OpenID, not Clickpass specifically.
- unalone 18y agoYep. Poor choice of words on my part.