[OpenID] New OpenID Customer Research Activity - Googleresearch on federated login

Dave Kearns dkearns at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 19:09:22 UTC 2008


From: Dick Hardt
> 
> On 25-Sep-08, at 9:44 AM, Scott Kveton wrote:
> 
> >> Let's be clear, sites are asking for the user's email address --  
> >> user's in
> >> general are not typing in email address to be their username.
> >
> > Says who?  Based on the real-world usability studies I've seen as of
> > late and the Content Provider discussions, that statement is totally
> > wrong.
> 
> As you state below, CP's have trained users to use their email address  
> as the account identifier ... users did not say "hey, I want to use my  
> email address as my account identifier"
> 
> 

Actually, I did.

:)ave



More information about the general mailing list