<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Completely agree. We already started a wiki page to collect best practices:<DIV> <A href="http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild">http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Would be great if people could add what they like ...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On Nov 9, 2006, at 5:40, Mike Ozburn wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> 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.<BR> <BR> 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.<BR> <BR> 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."<BR> <BR> Is this a different topic for a different string?<BR> <BR> mike<BR> <BR> Chris Messina wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE cite="mid1bc4603e0611022341q5750cf5di5af534739ec69193@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <PRE wrap="">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 <A class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jernst+openid.net@netmesh.us"><jernst+openid.net@netmesh.us></A> wrote:
</PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <PRE wrap="">I started a page to collect what OpenID relying party implementers
actually do today in terms of user experience.
<A class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild">http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild</A>
It's very rudimentary. Please add to it!!
Cheers,
Johannes.
Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.
<A class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://netmesh.info/jernst">http://netmesh.info/jernst</A>
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