[OpenID] This is me - now what was the question?

[Breno de Medeiros]

This is a blurry line or even a continuous gray shaded landscape.

I think it is appropriate that OpenID has this emphasis on visitors
because one of the benefits is that it reduces the barrier of entry
for personalization of user experience in websites, and it is a
measurable benefit.

Ultimately, most sites want to engage with their audience to achieve
their business goals.  Often the first step is to get some foothold on
which to create personalization, in a more permanent,
device-independent way that a persistent cookie. OpenID can really
help here.

Of course, OpenID can also be advantageously used by your 'resident'
users. But it may be more difficult to advocate these benefits as they
are more dependent on the type of business/site.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Andy Powell <andy.powell at eduserv.org.uk> wrote:
> If anyone reads the blog post at http://bit.ly/2VE1SA about the differing
> functional requirements of ‘visitors’ and ‘residents’ [*] I’d be interested
> as to whether you agree that the current ‘headline’ text on
> http://openid.net/ plays largely to the concerns of ‘visitors’:
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> Can't remember your passwords? Tired of filling out registration forms?
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> OpenID is a safe, faster, and easier way to log in to web sites.
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> rather than ‘residents’ and whether that matters?  I think the emphasis
> needs to be more on the value of having a Web addressable identity, not just
> on accessing services.  Apologies if this has been discussed before?
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> [*] In short, a ‘visitor’ sees the web as a tool to be dipped in and out of
> as necessary whereas a ‘resident’ sees the web as a space in which they live
> part of their life.
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> Andy
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