The noise and interest around Yahoo's BBAuth, but many would prefer to use a vendor neutral standard. Can you blame them? The odds of OpenID succeeding for real mainstream users, however, depends on it being simple and relatively idiot-proof. I believe that a few simple usability improvements to the OpenID 2.0 spec will greatly improve those odds. Unsurprisingly, they're derived mainly from the last 10 years worth of experience and lessons learned in making web browsers more usable by humans who don't know what "http://" means. I've been thinking about this off and on for the last few months and will post about those ideas in the coming days. Hopefully some of you will help to sanity check and maybe even improve them. Related Reading MyOpenID is a free OpenID server you can use How to turn your blog in to an OpenID is where Simon Willison attacks the same problem. I rather like his own implementation, BTW. OpenID Specifications is where the latest spec documents live. Currently that's 2.0 draft 11. Comments Bookmark murdok: Jeremy Zawodny is the author of the popular Yahoo! Search blog as well.
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