[OpenID] Thinking About OpenID.com

[Hans Granqvist]

Yes, openid.com is an eyesore. Yuck.

What do you propose would show up on openid.com?
If there is  drop-down, who'd get on that list?


On 3/18/08, David Recordon <drecordon at sixapart.com> wrote:
> Earlier today I came across a blog post (http://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2008/03/18/why-openid-will-never-work/
>  ) talking about some of the adoption hurdles around OpenID for normal
>  people.  The largest concern still seems to come from how OpenID.net
>  presents (or doesn't) itself in terms of being dead simple to actually
>  get an OpenID.  While I don't agree with every point that Jason makes,
>  I certainly understand what he is saying especially with how he ended
>  his response to my comment:
>
>   > I think it's just that the concept of OpenID is supposed to be
>  "braindead simple login for disparate web services,"
>   > and when you go to the page, what you see is "confusing multiple
>  login accounts, none of which you can do
>   > anything with from this page."
>
>  Thus the thought in my head is one that has come up in the past,
>  though never anything we've done something about.  What if we actually
>  purchase OpenID.com (like Jason suggested) and use it to be a dead-
>  simple normal person destination site?  OpenID.net can remain more
>  targeted for developers and we can stop fighting the battle of trying
>  to make one site useful for everyone.
>
>  Does this make sense to others?  Would people see this as a useful way
>  to spend OpenID Foundation resources?
>
>  Thanks,
>  --David
>
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