[Marketing] [OpenID] Website Being Updated Today

[Gabe Wachob]

If community wanted to encourage usability, why not have openid-based rating
system whereby each openid provider could be rated (by users, as identified
by OpenIDs - *maybe* this could prevent gaming/abuse if done right) on
usability from 1-10. The openid.net site would simply list the OpenID
providers by usability ranking, the highest average rated sites listed first
(limited to sites getting a minimum number of votes)?

Perhaps there could be a handful of subcategories - like "provides INames",
"free", etc. 

	-Gabe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: marketing-bounces at openid.net [mailto:marketing-bounces at openid.net]
> On Behalf Of Scott Kveton
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:22 AM
> To: Dick Hardt
> Cc: OpenID marketing; david at sixapart.com
> Subject: Re: [Marketing] [OpenID] Website Being Updated Today
> 
> > I think it is a very slippery slope for the website and/or board to
> > recommend OpenID providers without being inclusive of ALL providers.
> 
> I would agree with this if we were talking about just about anything
> other than a users digital identity.  Let me explain.
> 
> There have been countless blog posts and notes to the general list
> saying "if I am a user, where do I get an OpenID?"  People invariably
> end up at openid.net and then are completely stumped.  The process is
> painful at best (well, before yesterday it was).
> 
> Now, if you look at the listing on the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.openid.net/Public_OpenID_providers
> 
> we see 40+ sites that provide OpenID's ... now this is fair to every
> single provider out there but is completely worthless for the end
> user.  They want to click a button and end up at a provider.  Now, if
> they are coming to openid.net for a digital identity and we send them
> off to a evil/bogus/soon-to-be-out-of-business provider, how good is
> that for the user and/or OpenID as a whole?
> 
> To that end, I actually like Drummond's proposal however, I don't want
> to committee this to death so that we create something that makes
> everyone happy but creates a completely confusing tool for end-users.
> I firmly believe that we need to create a tool that is easy for users
> or, no matter how inclusive it is, it will fail.
> 
> - Scott
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