[OpenID] Finally the Shit has hit the fan!

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

The numbers don't lie. Neither do the webs current big consumer success
stories.

-----Original Message-----
From: SitG Admin [mailto:sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com] 
Sent: 07 June 2010 20:38
To: Steven Livingstone-Perez; Dick Hardt
Cc: openid-general at lists.openid.net; openid-specs at lists.openid.net
Subject: RE: [OpenID] Finally the Shit has hit the fan!

>In short, until we can get the browsers to put social as a first class 
>citizen (and look how long universal OpenSearch support in the browsers 
>took) we have a battle.

Is there no better marketing tactic than "social"?

At 2:37 PM -0700 6/1/10, Dick Hardt wrote:
>>On 2010-06-01, at 9:44 AM, jDavid wrote:
>>BTW, can we rename this Relying Party? the RP should have a more 
>>recognizable name, maybe social app?
>
>Wow. That is a pretty narrow view of OpenID. Is that all you think it 
>can be used for?

Well, until we think of other ways to describe it to browsers (and other
vendors), how do we expect to generate a broader understanding?

-Shade