OpenID User Experiences found in the wild

[Mike Ozburn]

This is a great beginning.  It seems that we really need to begin to 
capture some "best practices" for implementing OpenID to help everyone 
(consumers, providers, relying parties, etc. etc.) get a handle on how 
to help roll this out.  It seems to me that regardless of any 
"community" efforts, the introduction of OpenID, and its benefits or 
pitfalls, is going to occur on a "service by service" or "site by site" 
basis.  The more we can do to help these individual sites and services 
"do it consistently" or "do it right," the smoother the introduction and 
adoption.

Does that make sense?  Does that sound overly "centralized?"  Does 
anyone have some examples you would point to that might give us a good 
roadmap from a "marketing" perspective.

I think this is an important aspect to the OpenID marketing plan, even 
though it may seem like we are still very early in the process.  In our 
world I think the old adage still holds true:  "you only get one chance 
to make a 'first' impression."

Is this a different topic for a different string?

mike

Chris Messina wrote:
> Awesome!
>
> Yeah, so here's a pretty interesting use case -- which I think we need
> to address... stringing one OpenID to another... to another... to
> another... and communicating which OpenID sites are consumers vs
> providers -- which is lame, since they all should really go both ways.
>
> Consider this: I added OpenID to my WordPress blog (temporarily). I
> logged in using claimid.com/factoryjoe. That was successful and
> everything worked like it should. I went to my profile and I was able
> to add other OpenID accounts to consolidate my identity... oo, neat!
>
> So I decided to add factoryjoe.livejournal.com... I was taken to
> LiveJournal where I first logged in normally (not with OpenID) and
> that got me nowhere... So I logged out of LJ, and logged back in w/
> OpenID -- which created a *new* account on LJ based on my ClaimID
> account... soooooo.... now I have *two* accounts that I apparently
> can't transfer back to my WordPress blog because it turns out
> LiveJournal doesn't allow for remote authentication.
>
> Jeez, woulda been nice to know that first, eh?
>
> Anyway, that kind of killed it for me.
>
> Oh, and the username created on the WordPress blog was less than ideal
> (not simply Alans fault) since there are no standards on how to create
> GUID-like, URL-based "same names" for databases.
>
> Anyway, just a couple observations and experiences.
>
> Chris
>
> On 11/2/06, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us> wrote:
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>> I started a page to collect what OpenID relying party implementers
>> actually do today in terms of user experience.
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>> http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild
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>> It's very rudimentary. Please add to it!!
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>> Cheers,
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>> Johannes.
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>> Johannes Ernst
>> NetMesh Inc.
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>>   http://netmesh.info/jernst
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