Comments on: OpenID: fail. http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/ musings about electronic culture Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: What's wrong with OpenID? - Quora http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-9393 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:38:55 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-9393 [...] [...]

]]> By: Science in the Open » Blog Archive » A specialist OpenID service to provide unique researcher IDs? http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-8637 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:55:02 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-8637 [...] with them as an OpenID but they don’t accept other OpenID providers. More importantly, people just don’t seem to get OpenID. It seems unnatural for some reason for a person’s identity marker to be a URL rather than a [...]

]]> By: bob http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-7785 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:55:35 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-7785 I disagree with the point that multiple creds is a pain point for even nongeeks. If they didnt have to expose their personal information over and over I think surfing the web would be alot more enjoyable.

Also, you may think guessing from your fav passwords and user names is “OK”, but remember that you are not alone, everyone does that. When lots of people duplicate this info across sites its a serious security risk.

]]> By: bob http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-7784 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:39:04 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-7784 This comment form sucks for asking me for my email.

But seriously, I have been ignoring openID ever since I heard about it. Then I went to implement another website and I wanted it to be registration free.

I have no interest in storing personal information in my database or writing the mind numbing waste of time registration pages.

I decided to only accept openID. And I have no registration page. There is not a single piece of personal information in my sites database and Im pretty darn excited about that.

Seems like the way it should be. Maybe it will evolve into something different, but for now ME LIKEY!

]]> By: paul walk’s weblog » Blog Archive » OpenID and name authority http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-7655 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:29:18 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-7655 [...] I have been very interested in OpenID for some time. I like the relatively agile way in the which the standard has evolved. I like the fact that it has been responsive to the developer community. I agree with Andy Powell when he talks about the importance of the capacity for the delegation of the service providing your OpenID – I’ve maintained an OpenID for myself at http://paulwalk.net despite having changed the underlying OpenID identity provider service twice. However, I’ve become frustrated by the way in which OpenID has been deployed and couched almost entirely in terms of it’s potential to solve the often-exaggerated problem of users needing to maintain too many user accounts (although I confess that I have contributed to this). Personally I maintain a small handful of username/password combinations for accessing hundreds of web services – it’s a minor inconvenience. And as Mike Ellis pointed out in a great post, OpenID: fail: [...]

]]> By: Science in the open » A specialist OpenID service to provide unique researcher IDs? http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-7652 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:38:18 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-7652 [...] with them as an OpenID but they don’t accept other OpenID providers. More importantly, people just don’t seem to get OpenID. It seems unnatural for some reason for a person’s identity marker to be a URL rather than a [...]

]]> By: Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - Jim Downing » Blog Archive » Still excited about OpenID, but… http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-7587 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:13:05 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-7587 [...] Owen Stephens also commented on the post, linking to a post that pointed out that the OpenID “user experience” leaves much to be desired. [...]

]]> By: nostuff.org » Blog Archive » Wordpress themes and plugins http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-7517 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:42:23 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-7517 [...] : allows those leaving comments, and myself as blog author to sign in via OpenID. While it’s been noted that OpenID does have userbility issues, it still seems like a good option to have. I’m [...]

]]> By: Nick Burne http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-7504 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:18:48 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-7504 Hey Mike,

Long time no speak. Just implementing a site with Open ID and going through the user journey was a bit of a nightmare – so very useful matey!

I’ve always wondered why we don’t just solve all these login usability issues using browsers – thought Google Chrome was going to come up with something, but alas just another IE. Google Clone!

]]> By: Mike http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/#comment-7500 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:37:15 +0000 http://electronicmuseum.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-7500 Hi Byron – thanks for your comment, and sorry it’s taken me so long to reply. I’ve been kinda busy (see http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/09/11/its-bathcamp-weekend/)…

You raise some very good points, and certainly there are some ways around the usability issues. I feel these should now become the focus of OID now: less about the technology, more about the user. If we can do this, we stand half a chance that it’ll work for “most” users. If we don’t, it’ll continue to fail.

Mike

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