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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 ricree on Monday September 22, 2008 @12:42PM (#311325)
Why is typing something like maximusklein.gmail.com and logging in with google more complicated than [email protected].

People keep saying over and over again that open ID is too hard for average users, but I just don't see any evidence that this is the case.

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Re:The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - ... by maxklein on Monday September 22, 2008 @01:03PM (#311350)
Because I know clearly what one is, but I am unsure what the other one is. To me, the URL is a webpage. And it's not clear to me how a webpage is going to log me into another webpage if I am a user.

Users don't see URLs as URLs, they see them as pages, like on a newspaper. So OpenID is based on a concept that alien to users.

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