Monthly Archives: March 2008

Universal OpenID Button

March 29, 2008 – 10:08 pm

Following Clickpass‘s lead, there are 3 key scenarios that a Universal OpenID Button needs to enable in order to gain widespread use on the web: 1) new user sign up, 2) existing user sign in, and 3) merge existing Identity 1.0 user with a new or existing OpenID user. Despite the existing best practices for [...]

By Scott Blomquist | Posted in OpenID, OpenID Ideas | Comments (5)

Heading off button proliferation in OpenID

March 27, 2008 – 8:30 am

The great OpenID usability work that Clickpass recently launched and the reactions that followed have induced me to spend some time thinking about what this all means for OpenID. The first conclusion that I reach is that Clickpass-style single-click single sign-on is almost inevitably the future of OpenID–it makes it trivially simple for even the [...]

By Scott Blomquist | Posted in OpenID | Comments (3)

IE8 vs annoying social bookmark icons

March 11, 2008 – 1:45 am

Microsoft released Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 8 during MIX08. They’ve done some exceptional work during the 15+ months since IE7 shipped (passes ACID2 out of the box, implements some neat new JavaScript features, has moved the IE Dev Toolbar developer tools into the browser, and too many other things to list here). My personal [...]

By Scott Blomquist | Posted in Microsoft, Technology, Web | Comments (1)