Improvements in OpenID usability: Yahoo's OpenID + OAuth hybrid signon procedure
| Contributed by: | Gudmundur A Thorisson |
| Originally posted: | 18th September 2009: 10:57 pm |
| Last updated: | 18th September 2009: 11:04 pm |
| Short URL: | http://gen2phen.org/node/6241 |
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Looks like further advances are being made to make the OpenID signin procedure smoother for users, following in the footsteps of previous experiments by Plaxo on this front. The mini-popup actually works surprisingly well, compared to complete browser redirect to the ID provider site, and the two-in-one (signin + approve data sharing) approach certainly is smooth (after testing my Yahoo ID on http://www.mysears.com).
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/09/yahoo_openid_hybrid.htm...
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Building on their successful experience with Yahoo! OpenID, Plaxo is experimenting with the Hybrid Protocol: A portion of new users who sign up for Plaxo with their Yahoo! account, are now enabled to sign in to Plaxo with their Yahoo! account and to authorize two-way data sharing of their Yahoo! Contacts and Updates via the Hybrid Protocol.
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#1 OpenID is a very interesting
OpenID is a very interesting topic with great potential but till now I have my problems with it. The problems start with getting an OpenID and I don´t want to talk about using it. For me the time for OpenID is not right, even as I already said it has a great potential. So I will keep looking for information and later I will give it a new try.
#2 Hi Reisen. Getting an ID is
Hi Reisen. Getting an ID is pretty easy. More than like you already have one, e.g. if you now use Yahoo or Google. See more here.
OpenID usability remains an issue. But it is improving, as the posts I hightlighted illustrate, see also here. For the future, it's likely that tricky tasks like selecting one's OpenID provider (out of hundreds or thousands) will be handled by specialized ID-selectors built into web browsers. You will configure your browser to use, say, 3x main IDs, and when you navitagate to an OpenID-enabled website, the browser will prompt you to choose which ID to use to sign in with. This will also help with security-related concerns, see here.