vimeo cul-de-sac

[Ben Clemens]

Are there fb connect rps you-all consider the best implementations (handling
these and other cases with aplomb)? Apologies if this was covered at the
conference or before...

On 3/30/09 11:02 AM, "Luke Shepard" <lshepard at facebook.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, ben. You raise a good point - a lot of RPs have
> struggled with what to do when they don't collect a password. For some Connect
> partners, they have nailed all the use cases, but occasionally we find an edge
> case that's still assuming pw or email.
> 
> Others just require a new password anyway- that let's them punt on the
> difficult issues while still getting some of the benefits of a facebook login
> (like feed and profile data)
> 
> These are definitely some of the issues we should be educating rps about.
> 
> I'll pass this along to vimeo.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: user-experience-bounces at openid.net <user-experience-bounces at openid.net>
> To: user-experience at openid.net <user-experience at openid.net>
> Sent: Mon Mar 30 10:44:53 2009
> Subject: vimeo cul-de-sac
> 
> I got into a cul-de-sac today with vimeo facebook connect, and thought it
> would be good to highlight the case so it can be avoided in openid
> interaction.
> 
> I have a vimeo account, but wasn't signed-in to it. I wanted to try the
> facebook sign-in, so I clicked the fb button, then got an overlay with prefs
> to allow updates to facebook and the message that a vimeo account had been
> created linked to my facebook account. So far so good.
> 
> There's no way on vimeo to link a different vimeo account to the new
> facebook one, but I imagine they will take care of that at some point. What
> got me was that when I wanted to remove the new facebook account I had
> created (since it's useless to me), vimeo asked me to verify my password. I
> hadn't created one, of course, so I was unable to remove the account. Since
> I had already linked my facebook account with an account on vimeo, I
> couldn't fix it afterwards either from my real vimeo account.
> 
> best,
> Ben
> 
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