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OpenID Needs to Start Getting Real
- mechanical_fish 18y agoFellow blogger Allen Stern shares some of the same concerns about OpenID. “It’s more likely that the average Internet user will understand the Facebook Connect process than the OpenID process. This is why OpenID must focus on marketing and usability more than technical standards at this time,” he writes. Yeah, all OpenID needs is some Ronco Spray-On Usability! http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability
- graemep 18y agoThat particular problem is pretty well solved by spray on usability in the form of various configuration GUIs. Open ID is probably a lot more tricky of course, so your point stands, even if I think your example is a bad one.