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A comment on The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - "destined for the dustbin". Parent comment

Re:The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - ... by sachinag on Monday September 22, 2008 @02:31AM (#310883)
This is the thing: the "yet another new account" thing isn't a problem for real users. Real users use the same damn user/pass on every site. This is terrible for their security, but it just works.
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Re:The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - ... by tptacek on Monday September 22, 2008 @12:16PM (#311293)
Of the minority of users who have enough accounts on web applications to care, only a small fraction have accounts they care about that are ever likely to support OpenID.

I don't think most users see this account/password thing as one of their major Internet challenges.

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