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Yesterday’s OpenID User Experience Summit (hosted by Facebook) has generic valtrex drug interactions got together a lot of people interested in building a better user experience for generic valtrex drug interactions 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 generic valtrex drug interactions read by Friendfeed, and your MySpace music preferences are matched with friends in Facebook so that generic valtrex drug interactions you all can coordinate events on Eventful that you heard about on someone’s TypePad blog and generic valtrex drug interactions was Twittered about on Seesmic and later indexed and searched by Google.

I’ve been generic valtrex drug interactions able to follow just a bit of the initial presentations on the generic valtrex drug interactions UStream but Plaxo’s John McCrea has a detailed live blogging post generic cialis 50mg, moreover all the presentations are online at slideshare order viagra medicine (plus here are the UStream recorded sessions)

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 shows that generic valtrex drug interactions the open protocols can be made more effective by implementing a generic valtrex drug interactions better user experience. Moreover it shows that the users, if given a generic valtrex drug interactions 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 generic valtrex drug interactions awesome if you think about the amount of interaction that is generic valtrex drug interactions 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 generic valtrex drug interactions service accesses that data thus importing it and pre-populating the new account

It’s a generic valtrex drug interactions win-win as this shows how something may be made at the generic valtrex drug interactions same time

  • safer and more useful for the user (who generic valtrex drug interactions should not give away his password or let absolute access to generic valtrex drug interactions his account) and
  • more effective for the service providers (more reliable user data collection, possibly more user signups)

On the generic valtrex drug interactions downside of this approach is that it will not be generic valtrex drug interactions easy to scale this beyond the single provider. I hope it generic valtrex drug interactions doesn’t ends up in a proliferation of single-provider buttons (for somthing that may be implemented with the same undelying technology).

This is generic valtrex drug interactions a treat without cooperation among the interested parties but looking at the generic valtrex drug interactions meeting and how the big-cos and many of the smaller players are generic valtrex drug interactions talking to each other there is hope that it will happen for generic valtrex drug interactions real.

Generic valtrex drug interactions

So… news of the day (yesterday actually) is that Facebook is getting on board in the OpenID foundation (this generic valtrex drug interactions is following the annoucement a while back about Paypal doing the generic valtrex drug interactions same).
Commenters are generic valtrex drug interactions beginning to recognize that OpenID is actually gaining more momentum than generic valtrex drug interactions most would have tought and the adoption that many big online services are generic valtrex drug interactions showing is helping to build a larger mindshare also among the generic valtrex drug interactions less geeky users.

One critique that generic valtrex drug interactions I hear a lot is that the way the bigger players are generic valtrex drug interactions approaching OpenID, basically turning every one of their accounts into an generic valtrex drug interactions OpenID for their users is not really helping the open web since it’s like every site giving out an generic valtrex drug interactions email address everybody can send to but just accepting email from generic valtrex drug interactions 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 generic valtrex drug interactions you can have a lot more potential users with an generic valtrex drug interactions easier path to try out your service (got a google account? no need to signup!).
Ideally one’s identity online should not be generic valtrex drug interactions tied to a specific service, but more likely each user will have generic valtrex drug interactions one main service which represents his own main “self” online. That will be generic valtrex drug interactions the main service they use online, the one they are spending more time on. It may be generic valtrex drug interactions a Google account or a Facebook one or a Myspace identity or generic valtrex drug interactions their wordpress.com hosted blog, but we can be almost sure that generic valtrex drug interactions 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 generic valtrex drug interactions is usable elsewhere, just being able to tap into the generic valtrex drug interactions great number of people that will already have one of the generic valtrex drug interactions hub-provided identities

You should start right now to generic valtrex drug interactions plan and execute to adopt OpenID as a consumer, adding also Facebook Connect in the generic valtrex drug interactions mix as long as they are separate (hopefully they’ll be interoperable in the future).

I don’t want provide a generic valtrex drug interactions new identity just to be able to tell who you generic valtrex drug interactions are, thus I, for sure, will try to do this generic valtrex drug interactions with the services I’m working on.

P.S. I specially like this quote from Chris Messina I read on the ReadWriteWeb:

user authentication is like a credit card. You don’t go to generic valtrex drug interactions a restaurant because they accept credit cards, you go because they have generic valtrex drug interactions good food. To take that analogy a step further, it is generic valtrex drug interactions good that every restaurant lets you pay for your food with any of the generic valtrex drug interactions major credit card vendors