This should probably be on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a href="mailto:user-experience@openid.net">user-experience@openid.net</a>, but I'll leave it on general@ for completeness.</span><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eran@hueniverse.com">eran@hueniverse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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And now comes by question and the subject of this post: do users understand<br>
the concept (and implementations) of login domains? If a site presented a<br>
Windows-like login dialog with place for username and input box (maybe with<br>
a drop-down option) for domain name, would people know what to do with it?<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I think it depends.<div><br></div><div>For sign-in alone, perhaps not. To retrieve some kind of necessary or applicable information, perhaps.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've started pointing out that the "cloud" metaphor is gaining traction because people are no longer JUST storing data on local harddisks. Instead, they're storing it online in services like Flickr and Picasa... on hard drives "in the sky".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Eventually, you can imagine that "login domains" will come to be associated with information or data retrieval — and that when I want to sign in to a remote service with my OpenID, I will pick the appropriate one because it will be hooked up as a data broker to some portion of my online data. Until we put some kind of rationale behind picking one OpenID provider over another, interfaces like the Identity Selector will fail because people will not know how to pick the appropriate account (what happens if I have an AOL, Gmail AND Yahoo account for example, and I'm presented with the <a href="http://idselector.com">idselector.com</a> interface?).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The best way to justify this assessment is to look at Meebo. People understand "login domains" in that context because they want to sign in to one or more accounts to access certain people. If there were no resources on the other ends of their IM accounts, what would motivate someone to use one account over another?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Therefore, until we get PoCo and similar services published in a reliable way in XRDS profiles, I think people will have no attachment to one OP over another.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><div><br>
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