[OpenID] Finally! Some fscking data!

[John Panzer]

Thanks Leah, that's more than sufficient for context.  Agreed that the most
interesting thing here is % of sign ups from other services, this is a great
existence proof for the UX story.

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Leah Culver <leah.culver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Thanks! I don't think I can give absolute #s... although I know that sign
> ups via TypePad have remained relatively stable while the number of sign ups
> via other providers have increased.
>
> However, it's important to keep in mind that a lot of people sign up for
> TypePad just to add comments to blog posts or to join a Motion community. I
> think these are both cases where quick sign up via Facebook, Twitter,
> Google, Yahoo etc. are appealing to users.
>
> You and Chris are correct that this data isn't only about OpenID.... I
> lumped both Facebook Connect and Twitter OAuth with OpenID. For the data I
> needed to collect, I was more interested in sign ups via other services than
> in OpenID in particular.
>
> Leah
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:36 PM, John Panzer <jpanzer at google.com> wrote:
>
>> This is some good data.  Leah, are you at liberty to reveal any absolute
>> #'s in addition to %'s over time (or to provide
>> relative-to-start-of-time-period total change in traffic)?  Do the OpenID
>> %'s include Facebook Connect?
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> In case you missed her post, Leah Culver has provided some very useful
>>> data on OpenID-style authentication use at TypePad.
>>>
>>> The money number? From 8% of all new signups three months ago to 63% in
>>> September.
>>>
>>> http://blog.leahculver.com/2009/11/log-in-or-sign-up-with-openid.html
>>>
>>> Perhaps she can run the numbers and see if the trend is continuing?
>>>
>>> Chris
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