[OpenID] Thinking About OpenID.com

[Brendan O'Connor]

Well, presumably a smattering of providers, and sites people already use 
on which they can use OpenID. (The most popular, for each-- since we 
shouldn't try to flood them with all the options; that's what the 
blogger was commenting about.)

In any case, yes, getting the .com as an "end-user" resource would be a 
great step in helping adoption by people who've just seen the phrase, 
and don't really get the idea. The developer site isn't helpful to that 
demographic.

---Brendan O'Connor

Hans Granqvist wrote:
> 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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