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<div>>2. I was inspired to look at the numbers after seeing Eric
Reis talk<br>
>at Web2. He's pushing measurement so that you can have a
conversation<br>
>that's based on data rather than opinions. A lot of people have
told<br>
>me that our numbers are low because of our UI. That's an opinion.
It's<br>
>easy to find supporting arguments for that opinion, but it should
be<br>
>just as easy to prove the opinion with some numbers.<br>
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<div>How about three hundred million numbers?</div>
<div>http://uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/</div>
<div>I don't think it addresses your specific circumstances, but I
don't know the details. This may help a bit, it may not.</div>
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<div>>decline in usage. For example, we had two large conferences
that were<br>
>a year apart in the same city. The first year adoption was 8% and
the<br>
>second year adoption was 3%.<br>
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<div>I would speculate that the 3% rate was constant, and your first
year startled out of the bushes that 5% reservoir of people whose
interest was still going even without OpenID to latch onto, but
speculations won't help here - you still need hard facts.</div>
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<div>-Shade</div>
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