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Re:Springpad - online notebooks to help manage your life by jhorman on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @02:20PM (#368581)
Yeah, we go back and forth on that. We only use it currently to send you a confirmation. You can still login immediately though. OpenID is definitely in the road map.

I suppose we could allow you to login to a more restricted account (no spamming since we do have email/sms out support) until you validate in some way.

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Re:Springpad - online notebooks to help manage your life by rantfoil on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @04:30PM (#368751)
PG's advice is right. Take down all the fences -- you have less than 20 seconds to impress the user into staying on your site.

It's an attention economy -- asking for signup/login before providing real value = squandering that attention.

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