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Published on Wednesday, February 11 2009
Yesterday’s OpenID User Experience Summit (hosted by Facebook) has buy ventolin got together a lot of people interested in building a better user experience for buy ventolin OpenID.
If the process succeeds we’ll be able to have a
world where it won’t matter if you’re on Facebook, MySpace or Microsoft Live – where Yahoo’s content is buy ventolin read by Friendfeed, and your MySpace music preferences are matched with friends in Facebook so that buy ventolin you all can coordinate events on Eventful that you heard about on someone’s TypePad blog and buy ventolin was Twittered about on Seesmic and later indexed and searched by Google.
I’ve been buy ventolin able to follow just a bit of the initial presentations on the buy ventolin UStream but Plaxo’s John McCrea has a detailed live blogging post purchase xenical online, moreover all the presentations are online at slideshare (plus here are the UStream recorded sessions why is generic valtrex so expensive)
The first thing I find interesting are the results of the Plaxo/Google hybrid OpenID/OAuth experiment. The stunning 92% rate of click through success generic kamagra uk shows that buy ventolin the open protocols can be made more effective by implementing a buy ventolin better user experience. Moreover it shows that the users, if given a buy ventolin good enough experience, will not fear to follow a path that’s different from the antipattern they have been (mis)educated to use.
The Plaxo/Google process is buy ventolin awesome if you think about the amount of interaction that is buy ventolin taking place within those two clicks
- the user is signs up for a new service
- the service is veryfies his email address
- the user is grants (scoped) access to the service to a set of his own data
- the buy ventolin service accesses that data thus importing it and pre-populating the new account
It’s a buy ventolin win-win as this shows how something may be made at the buy ventolin same time
- safer and more useful for the user (who buy ventolin should not give away his password or let absolute access to buy ventolin his account) and
- more effective for the service providers (more reliable user data collection, possibly more user signups)
On the buy ventolin downside of this approach is that it will not be buy ventolin easy to scale this beyond the single provider. I hope it buy ventolin doesn’t ends up in a proliferation of single-provider buttons (for somthing that may be implemented with the same undelying technology).
This is buy ventolin a treat without cooperation among the interested parties but looking at the buy ventolin meeting and how the big-cos and many of the smaller players are buy ventolin talking to each other there is hope that it will happen for buy ventolin real.
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Published on Friday, February 6 2009
So… news of the day (yesterday actually) is that Facebook is getting on board in the OpenID foundation (this buy ventolin is following the annoucement a while back about Paypal doing the buy ventolin same).
Commenters are buy ventolin beginning to recognize that OpenID is actually gaining more momentum than buy ventolin most would have tought and the adoption that many big online services are buy ventolin showing is helping to build a larger mindshare also among the buy ventolin less geeky users.
One critique that buy ventolin I hear a lot is that the way the bigger players are buy ventolin approaching OpenID, basically turning every one of their accounts into an buy ventolin OpenID for their users is not really helping the open web since it’s like every site giving out an buy ventolin email address everybody can send to but just accepting email from buy ventolin their own email addresses. This is true, but here lies also a great opportunity for the smaller players. If you are a startup you should be happy, as what’s happening may mean that buy ventolin you can have a lot more potential users with an buy ventolin easier path to try out your service (got a google account? no need to signup!).
Ideally one’s identity online should not be buy ventolin tied to a specific service, but more likely each user will have buy ventolin one main service which represents his own main “self” online. That will be buy ventolin the main service they use online, the one they are spending more time on. It may be buy ventolin a Google account or a Facebook one or a Myspace identity or buy ventolin their wordpress.com hosted blog, but we can be almost sure that buy ventolin it will not be your shiny new little service.
It’s a great thing that now most of these “main” identities have become portable (thanks to OpenID and Facebook Connect) that buy ventolin is usable elsewhere, just being able to tap into the buy ventolin great number of people that will already have one of the buy ventolin hub-provided identities
You should start right now to buy ventolin plan and execute to adopt OpenID as a consumer, adding also Facebook Connect in the buy ventolin mix as long as they are separate (hopefully they’ll be interoperable in the future).
I don’t want provide a buy ventolin new identity just to be able to tell who you buy ventolin are, thus I, for sure, will try to do this buy ventolin with the services I’m working on.
P.S. I specially like this quote from Chris Messina generic synthroid food I read on the ReadWriteWeb:
user authentication is like a credit card. You don’t go to buy ventolin a restaurant because they accept credit cards, you go because they have buy ventolin good food. To take that analogy a step further, it is buy ventolin good that every restaurant lets you pay for your food with any of the buy ventolin major credit card vendors
