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Something that doesn't require you to be a techie to understand. OpenID is a bit advanced for many users.

FB Connect actually does a pretty good job at being "easy to use". Just log into your FB account and you are set. I know it's not fair, but most people havn't posted anything to that openid website.

Google or Yahoo logins would work, since there's a recognizable brand name and there's a good chance that the user has an account on those sites.

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>FB Connect actually does a pretty good job at being "easy to use". Just log into your FB account and you are set.

The only time I used OpenID, it was for StackOverflow. The workflow was exactly as you describe for Facebook Connect, except substituting Gmail for Facebook. I really don't see where there's room to be tripped up, unless you can't handle the idea that you can log in using accounts from multiple places.

Because normal users' innate pathological copy-reading avoidance make the login page (http://skitch.com/dasil003/d2ac8/change-openid-stack-overflo...) a usability clusterfuck.

That's not an issue with OpenID. That's an issue with the decision to not use OpenID exclusively and applies to every authentication service on the list in that screenshot, by virtue of that list being a list.

Btw, if you login on another site using Google or Yahoo, you are using OpenID.

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