Impressive Argument Against OpenID

May 8 2008 / 3:15 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

I had OpenID setup on this site for a week. After I installed it wrong and got a bunch of errors, I reinstalled and it seemed to work fine after a few days. Then Mr Tsali kept getting errors with it and I let it go, since he was my first loyal reader. I signed up for an OpenID on a third party website and used it a whole one time because it took more steps to log into things. Warpspire has a detailed account of the general feelings I have about the current state of OpenID.

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Kim Jackson
I like the article. I also read Warpspire's reasons for not using OpenID. Your post and his made me rethink some of the lectures I attended in college, I remember back in college that the words "pervasive" and "ubiquitous" were the computer science buzzwords. And that was all I thought they were at the time; buzzwords that would be replaced the next year by new ones. My assumption seemed to be correct at the time. But now "social media" and "web 2.0" are the new buzzwords and they do not seem to be going away anytime soon. And to me these buzzwords are eerily similar to pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Everyone wants multiple ways to be interconnected. I think solutions like OpenID naturally lend themselves to this type of distributed social networking environment. I agree that the implementation is not the best, but as more players enter the scene the better implementations will rise to the top.
Amber S
We can only hope something better comes along. And we have to hope its not Google taking over the world.