Hey,<br><br>In the spirit of attempting to get the core message discussion going here are a couple of things...<br>
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First, a good friend of mine suggested that we really ought to focus on such basic thinking as: <br>
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One-click sign up<br>
One-click sign in<br>OpenID - One-click quick<br>
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Also, I saw this blog post this morning which gets to the point:<br>
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<div class="btitle"><a class="invisiblelink" href="http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/user-ids.html">Can OpenID hurry up already?</a></div>
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Trying to register for web access to my health insurance account, I'm
greeted with the following restriction:
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Please select a User ID that is between 6 and 20 characters
long using numbers and letters. It must contain at least one
number and one character. You cannot consecutively repeat a
character or number more than twice. Eg. AAA12345 is not
allowed.
</blockquote>
Yes, on this site my username has to have a number in it. As I <a href="http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/signonLimits.html">remarked a long time ago</a>
my real problem with web logins isn't remembering my password, it's my
username. Every site has different restrictions, the names have to be
unique, it's a total pain.
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I'm completely ready for Internet single signon. <a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a> is looking great but adoption is
very slow. I'm willing to trust a big company like Yahoo, Microsoft,
Google, even my ISP to maintain my identity. Can we do it now please?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/user-ids.html">http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/user-ids.html</a></p><p><br></p>
<p>cheers,</p>
<p>-bill<br>
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