Prompted by posts by Randy Reddig and Tony Stubblebine and a conversation with Elliott Kember, I wanted to address, yet again, the big fat stinking elephant in the room: OpenID usability and the paradox of choice. Elliott proposed a pretty clear picture of what he thinks OpenID should look like on StackOverflow, given the relative [...]
Update: The BBC has posted a write-up of the report called Easy login plans gather pace. I was interviewed by Gareth Mitchell last week about OpenID for the BBC’s Digital Planet podcast. Our conversation lasted about 10 minutes — of which only about two minutes survived (mirrored here as they currently do not keep an [...]
Needless to say, it’s been a big week for the open web, with Facebook joining the OpenID Foundation and hosting an OpenID Design Workshop. Above is the latest episode of theSocialWeb.tv called “An Open Discussion with Facebook”, filmed yesterday on location at Plaxo. John, Joseph and I talk about the week’s news with Dave Morin [...]