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Yeah - although I'm starting to find that sites using OpenID 2.0 to have a good user experience. e.g. http://www.plaxo.com http://www.plaxo.com I'm not really
by jwilliams 18y ago
Yeah - although I'm starting to find that sites using OpenID 2.0 to have a good user experience. e.g. http://www.plaxo.com http://www.plaxo.com
I'm not really a heavy user of it, I probably wouldn't have joined - but they make it ridiculously easy to register.
We're taking on OpenID 2.0 as part our our development as a consequence. I know it has it's drawbacks, but as you say, getting the penetration up front is key.
Either way - hopefully a sign of things to come.
- unalone 18y agoI dislike Plaxo. Just as OpenOffice is what I look at as an example of the worst of Open Source, Plaxo is my posterchild example of OpenID. It adds nothing. First it was an address book in the midst of a sea of similar address books. It added OpenID to gain an "edge" and it got publicity despite its still having a meaningless featurelist. Plaxo 3 added Pulse, which is just a watered-down FriendFeed, which is a pretty watered-down site to begin with. It's ugly - it was obviously design-by-committee, which made it incredibly harmless and hideously generic - it adds nothing, and it has uglier ads than most of the sites it's ripping off. The name is terrible. It's the ultimate example of the meaningless short name.