[OpenID] OpenID on change.gov

[Peter Williams]

Look at it positively. You could not have purchased that exposure. Several thousand folk, bombarded by millions of messaging campains, were introduced to the idea, virally.

Its a better sample for measuring "awareness" than 6 yahoo powerusers, or 250 power webusers. Its a community of folks happenstance using/seeing openid in its most primeival form - but a form that is close to the original genesis of the openid variant of websso.

I would not keep focussing on the big wave from the "major ops". The only wave will be one that suits the ops interests, which are unlikely to coincide with uci interests, given the nature of being a consumer ttp.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:05 PM
To: general at openid.net >>  general at openid.net  <general at openid.net>
Subject: Re: [OpenID] OpenID on change.gov


SitG Admin wrote:
>
> If change.gov compensates for this by educating users about how they can
> create and/or select their own niche providers (thus taking power AWAY
> from the "big" providers and delivering it to individuals and small
> communities), would that change anything?
>

Do you think this is likely?

As far as I can tell, change.gov only accepts OpenID to log in because
that happens to be the default for IntenseDebate. It doesn't seem like
that site is going to be championing the cause of OpenID anytime soon,
though it is nice to see the name crop up on the comment form nonetheless.

*IntenseDebate* could do as you suggest, but I think from their point of
view they'd be better off implementing 2.0 and accepting the major
providers; for most sites, allowing users to reuse their existing big
provider accounts is a large part of what little value proposition
OpenID has for them right now. Supporting the niche providers is just a
side-effect.




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