[Marketing] FW: Website Design - Get an OpenID Link

[Ashish Jain]

Is there any clear distinction between openid.net and openidenabled.com?

Would it make sense to have openid.net target the "end user", who is
here only to 'Get an OpenID' and start using it right away. The site
then should be simple, clean and with minimal technical jargon (A quick
overview, a handful of links and a list of providers to get one).

http://openidenabled.com <http://openidenabled.com/>  or
http://openid.net/developer can then focus on the 'developer' who would
like to understand the details and potentially implement it (a wiki
would serve well).

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: marketing-bounces at openid.net [mailto:marketing-bounces at openid.net]
On Behalf Of Simon Willison
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:48 PM
To: OpenID marketing
Subject: Re: [Marketing] Website Design - Get an OpenID Link

 

On 8/2/07, Luke Sontag <luke.sontag at vidoop.com> wrote:

> What are everyone's thoughts on having a link to a list of OP's on the

> openid.net site.  The link would go to a list of OP's that are members
of

> the foundation (meet membership criteria). The order of the list would

> change each time the page loaded or refreshed (so as to not prefer one
OP

> over another).

> 

> The current state of the site and the fact that end users go there to
learn

> or find an OP, I believe is definitely a major point of confusion.

 

I've lost count of the number of people who have told me "I wanted to

give OpenID a go, but it took me the best part of an hour just to get

one for myself so there's no way I'll use it on my site". This is a

very real problem, and a major barrier to adoption. The political side

of it is tricky but needs to be figured out.

 

Foundation membership sounds like it could be a solution here - not a

perfect one, but I'm pretty sure a perfect one doesn't (and can't)

exist.

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