[OpenID] New OpenID Customer Research Activity - Google research on federated login

[SitG Admin]

>>  Would it be possible to send the browser a user-side script that
>>  would accept their E-mail address (with the standard field name, to
>>  enable autofill) and attempt to reformat it into an OpenID, possibly
>>  with a popup to show them the transformation and explain that they
>>  should enter this URL in future?
>
>The user-specific URL may be machine-generated and non-mnemonic. It is
>at least usually longer than the domain, and I think users always
>prefer to type less in login boxes. I assume you mean we should train
>them to enter a reference to the IDP.

No, though this might be better where Directed Identity is in use. I 
prefer "real" ("vanity", as max engel called them) URI's, however, so 
I visualize users entering, for example;
max_engel at yahoo.com
And then the user-side script pops up an alert when they try to log 
in, showing "max_engel" in green, "@" in red, and "yahoo.com" in 
blue; and proposing a transformation into this format instead:
http://profiles.yahoo.com/max_engel
Where the red "@" has been removed, the green and blue are the same, 
and everything else is black.

-Shade