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krosaen on Oct 20, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect

Unfortunately, OpenId is too complicated for most folks. paste in your url? c'mon. Even Brad Fitzpatrick realizes this:

http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/

"People have been trying to use URLs as identifiers for people (as OpenID does), as it has great readability/discoverability properties, but this effort has largely failed because of UI/UX design failings, user confusion about URLs, etc."

stavros on Oct 20, 2010 [–]

You don't have to, there are widgets you can use where you just select your provider and enter your username, and everything's done.

krosaen on Oct 20, 2010 | [–]

good point, looks like stack overflow does this pretty well. there's also https://www.idselector.com and http://wiki.openid.net/Gallery

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