Buh-bye OpenID

So much for an attempt at sparking widespread OpenID use, as I ambitiously claimed earlier. After a few round of random user testing, it’s just not gonna help my case. Diminuitive yet-another-web2.0ish website can’t have more entry point barriers. Feedback from users: were confused by it, had a hard time understanding it, left the site at first glance. The last thing I want is to put a bunch of text in a page explaining to someone to input a valid URL from another site were she/he has an account on. I can see Steve Krug shaking his head. Have you ever seen a billboard with this much text? Though Plaxo probably have a good idea working for them.

I am not very optimistic in spite of the Google and Microsoft OpenID move even. Don’t get me wrong. OpenID is a great idea. And sometime in the future, I just may comeback. Maybe when the site brings in it’s first million. Blah! :p