[OpenID] What are openids weaknesses?

John Panzer jpanzeracm at johnpanzer.com
Tue Sep 4 16:29:10 UTC 2007


Johannes Ernst wrote:
> 
> On Sep 3, 2007, at 18:43, Simon Willison wrote:
> 
>> Most people who use MySpace have no idea what a URI is (or a URL for
>> that matter), but they know that their MySpace page is
>> www.myspace.com/fuzzybunny1001 - the idea of a URL for identity is
>> already mainstream, it's just the terminology that isn't understood.
> 
> 
> Good point. So what should the terminology be?
> e.g.
>  - my home page

That's so 90's... :)

...

>  - my web address
+1 -- at least I think non-techies have the most chance of understanding 
this one.



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