[Marketing] [OpenID] Website Being Updated Today

[Dick Hardt]

I think it is a very slippery slope for the website and/or board to  
recommend OpenID providers without being inclusive of ALL providers.

On 8-Oct-07, at 11:31 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:

> David, Scott:
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> While I really like almost everything about the new look and feel  
> and content, there’s one area where I’m worried about the political  
> position that it takes. http://openid.net/get/ clearly recommends a  
> set of OpenID providers just by being listed there. And leaves out  
> others simply by not being listed there. For example, none of the  
> XDI.org-Accredited I-Brokers that offer i-names (free or paid) are  
> listed there, nor is there even a reference to the XDI.org  
> directory of i-brokers at http://www.inames.net/register.html.
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> As much as we want to make it easy for visitors to obtain an OpenID  
> simply and easily, my concern is the community taking any position  
> at all with regard to listing OpenID providers or i-brokers, rather  
> than simply offering pointers to well known directories or public  
> resources for discovering them.
>
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> I know it’s not an easy problem to solve, but now that there’s a  
> “there there”, it’s easier to discuss the tradeoffs.
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> =Drummond
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> From: marketing-bounces at openid.net [mailto:marketing- 
> bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Bill Washburn
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 6:02 PM
> To: david at sixapart.com; OpenID marketing
> Subject: Re: [Marketing] [OpenID] Website Being Updated Today
>
>
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> Hey David, Scott, Vidoop team--
>
> Thanks for all your great efforts today.  Fabulous work!
>
> Are there particular things you'd like people to look at first or  
> pay extra attention to?  Are you actually planning on doing more  
> right away - tomorrow, for example?
>
> cheers,
> -bill
>
> On 10/8/07, David Recordon <drecordon at sixapart.com> wrote:
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> Hey all,
> New website is live!
>
> --David
>
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 7:32 AM, David Recordon wrote:
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> > Hey all,
> > Just a reminder that Scott and I are out in the wonderful city of
> > Tulsa, OK at Vidoop's offices working to upgrade the website.
> > Pretty soon we'll put up a "maintenance" page so expect the site to
> > be down a bit of today.
> >
> > Screenshot of the new front-page attached, though as you can tell
> > content is still a word in progress!
> >
> > Cool? Cool!
> >
> > --David
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