Wetpaint no longer supports OpenID. I missed this, but they turned off their OpenID support in November due to low usage and high maintenance costs.
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Wetpaint no longer supports OpenID. I missed this, but they turned off their OpenID support in November due to low usage and high maintenance costs.
Simon, we know you love it, and it's a decent idea, but the implementation is too hard for Average Joe to wrap his head around. Broad user adoption is required and itsn't going to happen. I already have multiple OpenIDs and how that any better than having multiple accounts? It's ludacris. Not to mention that being in control of your identity pretty much requires you to have your own domain name and most people don't nor should they.
Dave K - 8th January 2009 20:33 - #
Makes sence as their openid users accounted for less than:
200/1000000 = 0.02%
Dave K: What's the alternative? Facebook Connect? Great, then authentication on the internet will be controlled by one organisation and we'll lose the decentralised nature of the Web.
I still think OpenID can be made palatable to regular users, though almost certainly not in its current enter-a-URL form. This presentation claims that OpenID in Japan is at 30% awareness with 15% actively using it. We still haven't figured out how to properly present it to people.
I also think the threat posed by Facebook Connect will spur other social networks to adopt OpenID, just like the Facebook Platform drove the adoption of OpenSocial.
IMHO, OpenID is not as much cool as most people think. Live ID and OAuth will become more popular soon.
Koistya `Navin - 10th January 2009 02:31 - #