Márcio Vinícius Pinheiro wrote: > Does anyone read this list? Yes. Thank you for asking. You might check our archives if you still feel the need to doubt.
> I'm a user of Google, Blogger, Yahoo!, Flickr, Launchpad, and other > stuff. > The openid.net says "OpenID eliminates the need for multiple > usernames across different websites, simplifying your online > experience." > BUT I still have several usernames across different websites (all > of them with openID)? Yes. This is not a question, and hardly raises one. OpenID gives websites the ability to eliminate a site specific username. Some sites really do use your OpenID for that, for example Jyte. Whether a site chooses to do that is their business. And whether you choose to use a site that doesn't take advantage of that is up to you. > Let me go further: > How can I make Yahoo know that "mviniciusmp" on Yahoo' systems is > the same of "marcioviniciusmp" on Google' systems? I still have > different accounts. I have many OpenIDs just because they invited > me to create separated IDs. You might try emailing them. Maybe they've not considered it, and merely need your advice to make it happen. But I doubt it, especially in Yahoo's case. OpenID allows your ID provider to provide unique IDs for each site you log into. This is called delegated identity. When you log in with a Yahoo OpenID, they don't give your Yahoo username. They give an ID unique to each site you log in to. > So again: What's the good in OpenID for me? If these are the things you value, than not much. Some of us like not having to remember many passwords, but you don't mention that. Some of us like delegated identity, but you seem not to want that. The best thing OpenID can do for you today is give you the ammunition to talk with sites that don't do what you want, and show them a better way. I recommend you try to have a real conversation with the sites that aren't doing what you want, and persuade _them_ to change. Maybe you could start your own site, and demonstrate how much better it is the way you like it. Nothing encourages change like competitive pressure. We don't have the power to change the internet. It doesn't work like that. OpenID gives sites the ability to change for the better. It's up to them to want to change. http://josephholsten.com _______________________________________________ user-experience mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/user-experience
