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A comment on Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web.

Re:Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPu... by erikabele on Sunday January 30, 2011 @04:41PM (#2159268)
IMHO the only issue with OpenID in regard to its adoption is how it is presented to the user. He/she shouldn't have to deal with URLs or even the term 'OpenID'. Unfortunately the current UIs & the whole UX are solely engineer-driven...
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Re:Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPu... by Joakal on Sunday January 30, 2011 @08:22PM (#2159845)
Showing OpenID term makes sense as it's branded to be an alternative access choice for users who wish to use OpenID. You are right in that it's poor UI/UX but unfortunately it's the implementation of 3rd parties.

Facebook is implementing a similar proprietary alternative login: FacebookConnect.

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