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Yahoo Releases OpenID Research

• axod 18y ago
  Summary: "We don't have a problem. What problem is openID trying to solve for us?" Why are people still trying to push openID?
  • dunk010 18y ago
    Because federated login is a great idea. Unfortunately the usability sucks at the moment. It's _very_ hard to get right.
    • axod 18y ago
      Federated login is a good idea. That's why 95% of people already use the same login details for every site.
• danw 18y ago
  Why are we linking to the 37signals post instead of the original Yahoo! post?
• iamdave 18y ago
  Certainly there is a lot of work to be done on the OpenID UX (user experience) front. I've got to disagree with that statement; OpenID just hasn't (and probably never will unless a big player like Yahoo! can give it a proper face) taken off enough in the mainstream view to be a reasonable option for end-users. Sure the possibility is there that Yahoo! can expand on the UX of providing an alternative login, but the following factors play in here: 1. As we already stated OpenID just isn't something that's going to have proper face time 2. Yahoo! cares about it's own login metrics and it only makes sense it wants to keep things internal and more predictable 3. Form follows function; the median of the above two facts can only beg that if 80% of users use login A, and 20% use login B that one is made more apparent than the other.