Comments on: Twitterfone launches

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:11:26 +0000

Oops,

thanks for letting me know Yeba. Sorted now. Cheers.

By: Darragh Curran

Darragh Curran — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:30 +0000

I noticed the link in your post to http://www.twitterfone.com actually has a comma after www instead of a dot!

By: Yeba

Yeba — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:04:37 +0000

O my God….Twitter let’s born Next Generation of SKYPE ?

By: Peggy

Peggy — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:41:29 +0000

With the growing popularity fo twitter, this has soem great potential.

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:55:13 +0000

Ah, PBWiki using it now? Off to check it out……

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:53:22 +0000

I frequent a few sites which use OpenID (Ma.gnolia, PBWiki, and zooomr, for example - there is a comprehensive list at https://www.myopenid.com/directory)

But your point is well taken, not enough sites have implemented OpenID. Yet.

Keep agitating for change. Or it will never happen!

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:43:28 +0000

Still waiting for the big uptick in sites accepting OpenID logins. Remember DIGG announced it in March 2007! I predicted it’d be huge in June 2006. Still waiting.

So apart from Plaxo and a niche site like Ma.gnolia.com, what other sites that you visit regularly are using it for login?

There is a big mindshift for people to use OpenID instead of a normal login. I still find the whole re-direct thing as annoying as hell. Maybe something like ClickPass will help things, maybe.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:17:28 +0000

Cormac,

you don’t have to rely on a 3rd party. Anyone can become an OpenID provider.

By: Cormac

Cormac — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:13:01 +0000

Seems a bit odd to be relying SOLEY on a third party for your login though.
It’s well and good using OpenID but what if OpenID suffers from a blackout?

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:17:04 +0000

Apples and oranges Conor,

That might be a valid comparison if I were forcing people to register to leave a comment here. I don’t.

Most people don’t currently have an OpenID login.
Most people don’t currently have a Twitterfone login.
An OpenID login is far more useful.
Instead of walking people through a Twtterfone registration, why not walk them through an OpenID login, giving them access to the Twitterfone site and potentially many other sites too?

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:46:22 +0000

Depends on your definition of trivial I guess.

If it isn’t limiting, why don’t you install the WP OpenID plugin and insist people here use OpenID to leave a comment?

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:42:55 +0000

Conor, I’m not sure I agree (about the OpenID - I do agree Pat has done a superb job).

Asking people to use OpenID to sign in isn’t limiting. If people don’t already have an OpenID, you walk them through setting up an OpenID login (in the same way he is currently walking them through setting up a Twtterfone login).

It is now a trivial matter to become an OpenID provider so Pat could himself be an OpenID provider and thus give people single sign-in to both Twitterfone and MaxRoam (as well as a host of other sites) in one fell swoop.

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:07:45 +0000

Pat has done a superb job with TwitterFone.

Whilst I use OpenID, I think he’d be insane to limit his sign-ups by requiring people to use it. If Twitter itself used OpenID, then maybe it would make sense.