Comments on: Is OpenID Doomed? http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/05/14/is-openid-doomed/ The personal web site of Brendon J. Wilson, a software developer, technologist, and entrepreneur living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:19:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Raul http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/05/14/is-openid-doomed/comment-page-1/#comment-169600 Raul Fri, 16 May 2008 15:11:06 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=396#comment-169600 Hi Brendon, came here through Miss604. Anyway... I *hate* OpenID. It's such a hassle trying to get it to talk to my TwitterFeed and stuff. I am sorry, but that's just annoying for someone so not-geeky like me. :) Great post! Hi Brendon, came here through Miss604.

Anyway… I *hate* OpenID. It’s such a hassle trying to get it to talk to my TwitterFeed and stuff. I am sorry, but that’s just annoying for someone so not-geeky like me.
:) Great post!

]]> By: Peter http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/05/14/is-openid-doomed/comment-page-1/#comment-169524 Peter Fri, 16 May 2008 05:38:14 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=396#comment-169524 i was very excited by the title of this post - the sooner OpenID goes the way of the dodo, the better off the world will be. And the sooner I'll be proven correct - the most important thing, of course. i was very excited by the title of this post – the sooner OpenID goes the way of the dodo, the better off the world will be. And the sooner I’ll be proven correct – the most important thing, of course.

]]> By: Brendon J. Wilson http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/05/14/is-openid-doomed/comment-page-1/#comment-169342 Brendon J. Wilson Thu, 15 May 2008 05:28:34 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=396#comment-169342 Thanks for the clarification guys! I think it's really interesting to see that Zoho felt that there is a compelling reason to focus on these proprietary mechanisms rather than OpenID. It sounds like user acceptance was the key decision criteria for Zoho pursuing Google/Yahoo account logins first. If that's the criteria, then this decision makes sense. That said, it further highlights a challenge to the OpenID community: to bridge the gap between a technology standard that solves the authentication problem technically and one that solves it for non-technical users. Thanks for the clarification guys!

I think it’s really interesting to see that Zoho felt that there is a compelling reason to focus on these proprietary mechanisms rather than OpenID. It sounds like user acceptance was the key decision criteria for Zoho pursuing Google/Yahoo account logins first. If that’s the criteria, then this decision makes sense.

That said, it further highlights a challenge to the OpenID community: to bridge the gap between a technology standard that solves the authentication problem technically and one that solves it for non-technical users.

]]> By: Raju Vegesna http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/05/14/is-openid-doomed/comment-page-1/#comment-169305 Raju Vegesna Thu, 15 May 2008 01:14:47 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=396#comment-169305 Brendon, Choosing to accept Google & Yahoo! logins first is an intentional move. I think we can safely say that anyone who has an OpenID Account also has a Google or Yahoo Account. But the reach of Google & Yahoo! goes far beyond the reach of OpenID and is well understood by a non-geek. OpenID in its current state is still complex for an average user to really understand and use it. That is not the case with Google or Yahoo! accounts. I really hope OpenID gets there. We are certainly not struck with Google & Yahoo! signins. We will support OpenID when the time is right. Brendon,

Choosing to accept Google & Yahoo! logins first is an intentional move. I think we can safely say that anyone who has an OpenID Account also has a Google or Yahoo Account. But the reach of Google & Yahoo! goes far beyond the reach of OpenID and is well understood by a non-geek.

OpenID in its current state is still complex for an average user to really understand and use it. That is not the case with Google or Yahoo! accounts. I really hope OpenID gets there.

We are certainly not struck with Google & Yahoo! signins. We will support OpenID when the time is right.

]]> By: Sridhar Vembu http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/05/14/is-openid-doomed/comment-page-1/#comment-169302 Sridhar Vembu Thu, 15 May 2008 01:09:36 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=396#comment-169302 We did it mainly for user convenience. We will get to OpenID in a future update. But as things stand now, most Yahoo/Google users do not know what OpenID is - and there is not much Zoho can do about that fact, it is those big OpenID providers that have to educate their users. Why Yahoo? It is the largest internet company by user base, particularly registered user base. We would love to get to MSN, AOL, MySpace, Facebook and so on too. We are pretty agnostic on how our users want to get authenticated. We did it mainly for user convenience. We will get to OpenID in a future update. But as things stand now, most Yahoo/Google users do not know what OpenID is – and there is not much Zoho can do about that fact, it is those big OpenID providers that have to educate their users.

Why Yahoo? It is the largest internet company by user base, particularly registered user base. We would love to get to MSN, AOL, MySpace, Facebook and so on too. We are pretty agnostic on how our users want to get authenticated.

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