At first I was excited when Peter said that MapQuest accepted OpenID. Then I tried it. After authenticating but before completing signin, it wanted me to pick an AOL screenname. I already have one -- I was trying to avoid using it in favor of OpenID. -1 point.<br clear="all">
--<br>Andrew Arnott<br>"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Peter Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pwilliams@rapattoni.com">pwilliams@rapattoni.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The openid directory has always been full of rubbish.<br>
<br>
12 months ago, when I went through the same exercise, there were only 2 competent "business" sites: a dating site for Latinas (<a href="http://www.cupidvirtual.com/" target="_blank">http://www.cupidvirtual.com/</a>), and plaxo. The rest were someone's deployment of a wiki or blog, with some version of a plugin. Often, the URLs didn't resolve. If they worked, the value of the site was low."<br>
<br>
About 9 months ago, the magnolia site came along and look mostly coherent (and almost useful). I also managed to be pretty competent talking to livejournal.<br>
<br>
About 6 months ago, blogspot came along. It was confusing at first, because you had to be logged into the service natively before you could use a third party openid on its blogs.<br>
<br>
Lately, some classy apps are coming out, including <a href="http://mapquest.com" target="_blank">mapquest.com</a>. This definitely looks useful!<br>
<br>
Flikr would seem to be generally useful, but doesn't obviously support openid account linking.<br>
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I could list 10 almost-rans that look cool, but don't work well enough in their websso behavior to take the risk of customer support hits ..were we to introduce users to them.<br>
<br>
I do think we are getting very much closer to business grade tho. Personally, though its not public, I count our own openid-enabled websso "gateway" as a destination, that gets desiring US Realtors to their gmail, calendaring and file sharing service hosted by Google Apps. Those three are definitely generic, "power" apps.<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:general-bounces@openid.net">general-bounces@openid.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:general-bounces@openid.net">general-bounces@openid.net</a>] On<br>
> Behalf Of Dan Lyke<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:47 PM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br>
> Subject: [OpenID] Trying to verify that my OpenID is valid<br>
><br>
> So I decided to try to drag my OpenID identity back out of the dusty<br>
> recesses. I have a MediaWiki server, so I made sure I had Evan<br>
> Prodromou's most recent MediaWiki extension, and typed "openid test"<br>
> into Google.<br>
><br>
> First response is:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://openidenabled.com/resources/openid-test/" target="_blank">http://openidenabled.com/resources/openid-test/</a><br>
><br>
> which I try, entering <a href="http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke" target="_blank">http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke</a>, and I get<br>
><br>
> Failed to discover any OpenID service.<br>
><br>
> Okay, wget my URL, look in the headers, sure enough there's a<br>
><br>
> <meta http-equiv="X-XRDS-Location"<br>
> content="<a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Special:OpenIDXRDS/DanLyke" target="_blank">http://www.flutterby.net/Special:OpenIDXRDS/DanLyke</a>" /><br>
><br>
> Some further digging around reveals that, indeed, that document appears<br>
> to be valid. So, strike "<a href="http://openidenabled.com" target="_blank">openidenabled.com</a>" off my list of valid OpenID<br>
> verifiers.<br>
><br>
> Next hit is a Google Code project, next one down is <a href="http://openidenabled.net" target="_blank">openidenabled.net</a>,<br>
> which says "Coming Soon".<br>
><br>
> Third hit is<br>
> <a href="http://winged.info/projects/news/plugins/openid/index.php?secret" target="_blank">http://winged.info/projects/news/plugins/openid/index.php?secret</a><br>
><br>
> which gives me an internal parsing error.<br>
><br>
> Okay, go to <a href="http://openid.com" target="_blank">openid.com</a>, find domain squatters, go to <a href="http://openid.net" target="_blank">openid.net</a>, and<br>
> discover... oh, look, I can get an OpenID URL, but I still can't find a<br>
> bloody OpenID consumer!<br>
><br>
> I'm frustrated. When I last participated in the OpenID mailing list it<br>
> was disintegrating into a whole bunch of features and technologies that<br>
> I just didn't care about, but I figured leave it alone and let the dust<br>
> settle and maybe something good would come out of it. Now I discover<br>
> that bit-rot has set in and OpenID is either moribund or dead.<br>
><br>
> What's happening here? And can I use OpenID yet, or is it still a<br>
> far-off technology?<br>
><br>
> Dan<br>
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