<div>Brian,</div><div>thanks for sharing your insight! I think we all can understand the business decisions of these companies.</div><div><br></div><div>There's only one concern that I have and that is about the OIDF (<a href="http://openid.net">openid.net</a>) promoting such sites as great examples of OpenID adoption. As for my belief what OpenID stands for they aren't, they're *just* great examples of delegated signon adoption (and Janrain Engage adoption).</div>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><br>The vision is still there, but the
market realities of what it takes to get adoption are driving things.
When we met with 15 or so media companies in NYC for the Content Provider
Advisory Committee almost two years ago, they told us point blank that the type
in box wasn’t going to work for them. They wanted a button and brands
that consumers were comfortable with. They wanted data from the OPs –
name, email address, zip code, age, gender, etc. Google, Yahoo, AOL, MySpace,
Flickr, Blogger, etc. were the brands and services that mattered most at the
time. Now Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Microsoft LiveID are also important
to many RPs. PayPal, Telcos, ISPs, banks, cable operators, etc. may also
enter the market. If smaller OPs want to have a place in the market, they
need to earn it, just like a new airline or phone company would. There
will be RPs who value and benefit from accepting thousands of individual OPs,
but it may not be the major websites, at least initially.</p>
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