[OpenID] New OpenID Customer Research Activity

[Tara Kelly]

Hello Peter,
The option to use Windows Live ID (hotmail) as an authentication method 
isn't required. You actually have four choices as of now for 
authentication: [1] standard Passpack [2] OpenID [3] Windows Live ID [4] 
Google ID.

Reading over my last email, I realize that it might have sounded like we 
just launched passpack.com today - not the case sorry. We just launched 
the authentication methods 2-4 above. Sorry about that.

We don't store the Windows Live or Google passwords on the server, you'd 
have to insert them at every login. With OpenID, you don't have that 
issue to begin with.  Though... things are going well and we don't plan 
on a bankruptcy anytime soon. :)

I don't know that this mailing list is the right forum to field general 
questions about Passpack (I don't mind doing so, but don't want to get 
way off topic), so if you'd like, feel free to write me privately.

Cheers,
Tara



Peter Williams ha scritto:
> I worry. The service asks me to reveal my hotmail password (and username). If passpack ever folds and the trustworthy funders lose control, who will control my values? ...whoever buys the discs at the bankruptcy auction?
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> ________________________________
> From: Tara Kelly <tara at passpack.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:18 AM
> To: Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us>
> Cc: OpenID List <general at openid.net>
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] New OpenID Customer Research Activity
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> We just launched our OpenID consumer at Passpack yesterday. A while back on the list (about a year ago?) I had tried to gather some market information. It wasn't available then, but would gladly help out to make it available for others in the future.
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> Like I said, we launched yesterday, so not a whole lot of statistical data, but we had some interesting implementation issues given that we offer a pure-play Ajax secure password storage.
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> There's some pre-release discussion on the blog about navigating through whitelists, standards, best practices, etc here if anyone is interested: http://passpack.wordpress.com/?s=openid (from Aug. 5 onward)
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> Hope it's useful. Let me know how else I can help out.
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> Cheers,
> Tara
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> Johannes Ernst wrote:
> The OpenID Foundation Board chartered a Customer Research Committee last Thursday.
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> Its purpose is to reach out to actual and potential adopters of OpenID, and learn from them basically what worked and what did not for them, and what the OpenID community needs to do in order:
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>  - to get even broader adoption of OpenID by more parties, in particular sites accepting OpenIDs
>  - to make existing OpenID deployments more successful (e.g. in getting OpenID transaction volume up)
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> If you have well-supported views on the subject, or like to volunteer some of your time for this purpose, please get in touch with me as soon as possible.
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> Once we have them, it is our intention to make the results of this initial activity available to the members of the OpenID foundation. (See, another reason to join the foundation now!)
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> Thanks,
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> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
> Chair, OpenID Foundation Customer Research Committee
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