[OpenID] Thinking About OpenID.com

[Sam Alexander]

As one of the designers of the current OpenID.net (which is admittedly  
just an incremental step towards where the site should eventually be)  
I wholeheartedly agree with Johannes.

The real problem is: how do we present OpenID in a braindead simple  
way? If we had the right content, its location wouldn't matter that  
much.  How do we describe how to obtain one when there are so many  
ways? Or, to take a step back: How do we get a user who has just heard  
of OpenID to their first USE of OpenID as simply as possible?

Imo, that should be the end-goal of the consumer oriented site.

- Sam Alexander

On Mar 18, 2008, at 8:02 PM, "Johannes Ernst" <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us 
 > wrote:

> Let's turn this question around. Never mind the domain, what exactly
> is the content?
>
> If we have the content and are really happy with it, finding a place
> where to host it is the easy part.
>
> I'm afraid that we won't come up with much better content, however ...
> lots of people have tried already ...
>
>
> On 2008/03/18, at 17:32, David Recordon 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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