Imagine visiting a store, showing a plastic card with a few numbers on it to the store employee, and leaving 10 minutes later with a thousand dollars worth of goods. Best of all, you and the store can be fairly certain that neither of you were cheated. Prior to the invention of the credit card, [...]
In a recent post I argued that OpenID identifiers such as www.davidrecordon.com, =eek and mylid.net/jernst are much more natural than those generated by Yahoo! or Google that might look like this: me.yahoo.com/a/vIxu8Lll29jYXQEYBNg86tIZgY7Bs8c7. Eric Sachs, the product manager in charge at Google, gave me a hard time over it; actually, he didn’t because he’s way too [...]
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Screen shot from the nominations page for the current OpenID Foundation board elections. I’ve always thought that OpenID identifiers need to be human readable because they are likely to be printed in places like this one. Can you spot the identifier that’s just not as helpful as the others? ;-) I have erased some information [...]
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