Comments on: Bringing OpenID To The Masses: Clickpass

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'ILLEGAL — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:01:14 +0000

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By: reply

reply — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:47:21 +0000

I dont understand how this will be a successful company… everything is free and open source, how do they make money? There is no advertising on the website, the source is free for other websites, and creating an account is free… this company is gonna fail very quickly without any revenue, making it useless to create an account with.

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Disqus Picks Up A Half Million — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:01:54 +0000

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By: » Quick, What’s Your OpenID URL? » The Progress Bar

» Quick, What’s Your OpenID URL? » The Progress Bar — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:50:37 +0000

[…] March 12th, 2008 · No Comments The Progress Bar read by people interested in emerging Internet marketing, technology, social media, reputation, virtual environments, blogs, the Boston Internet scene and much more. If you like what you see you should subscribe to my RSS feed or via email in the sidebar. Thanks for visiting!I don’t remember mine either. I have to look it up every time I want to use it on one of the five websites that actually let you login with it. I know, there are thousands, but I never come across them. Clickpass to the rescue. […]

By: CG

CG — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:31:39 +0000

Anyone have info on how well these services play with COPPA? My guess is not at all since none of these services really deal with trust — which is essential to determining real identity. Is there such a thing as a COPPA-friendly SSO?

By: Peter Nixey

Peter Nixey — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:17:53 +0000

I’m one of the founders of Clickpass and it’s great to hear so much positive feedback - thank you.

@Joe (#41): we put the option to authenticate at Clickpass using a foreign OpenID into early versions but when we were testing the usability of it even Simon Willison got lost (although he does have a particularly complicated OpenID setup). Since our goal was ease-of-use, we decided it just added too much complexity.

@ fernando (#39: we’ve thought about the button-proliferation issue a lot which was why we baked support for the other OpenID providers into Clickpass (the drop-down menu next to our button). It’s hard to know whether they’ll become more confusing but good analytics should help site owners decide the best route

@AW (#33): The first problem we wanted to solve was single-sign-on. We felt that that was the most compelling feature of OpenID. As Chris pointed out though someone can chose to use either a Clickpass anonymous OpenID or their own - it’s entirely up to them

Everything we’ve done has been to try and make things easy. There are always going to be ways we can improve though so please keep the feedback coming over at the site. We’re always trying to make login and sign-up simpler and more secure.

By: fnord

fnord — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:35:36 +0000

“Nobody should own this. Nobody’s planning on making any money from this. ” –Brad Fitzpatrick (before he’d heard of Clickpass..)

It’s great that Clickpass is simplifying openid for people. However, commercial success will depend on widespread adoption (both by end-users and ‘relying agents’).. and explaining the merits of openid over Microsoft Passport Live! to Joe Bloggs sounds like a tough gig.

It’s especially tough to convince potential relying agents when the basis for access is so sketchy. All I can prove with an openid is that I can provide an URL. There’s also the danger others have mentioned above; that other Clickpass-esque groups will pop up and the openid space will become a confusing mishmash of competing E-Z-Authenticators.

By: xavierv

xavierv — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:41:43 +0000

I’m impressed by such good publicity. Congratulations to Immad and his associate.

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KillerStartups.com - ClickPass.com - Simplifying OpenID for Everyone — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:38:59 +0000

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By: Cosmican

Cosmican — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:07:34 +0000

Excellent work by the clickpass guyz… I gave it a shot, and was surprised at how much easier it is to use OpenID with clickpass. I will soon use Clickpass developer-kit for one of my openID enabled site that I developed.

By: Joe Cascio

Joe Cascio — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:24:57 +0000

My first reaction to visiting the Clickpass site? Why can’t I register with my OpenID?

By: fernando

fernando — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:17:22 +0000

@michael a: How’s about rolling out open id support on TechCrunch?

By: fernando

fernando — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:14:47 +0000

As each “big” player jumps in to the OpenID field, they attempt to brand it, each spawning an open id login button. This gives an uneducated user the impression that each of these OpenId providers have their own version of OpenID. In reality of course, OpenID is one login method supported by different providers.

This button spawn business will hurt the adoption of OpenID in the mainstream, as it will become confusing to most. The better adaption method by service provides would be you use one open id login field, with explanatory text highlighting that openids from Yahoo, myopenid, Clickpass, and many more can be used.

By: Stacie

Stacie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:40:58 +0000

@Chris (#35), It has to do with the fact that a relying party (or parties) in collusion with the issuing party could compromise one’s privacy and security. The U-Prove technology, as I understand it, allows one to keep reliance on this 3rd party to a minimum.

Currently with OpenID, no matter whom I choose (Google, Yahoo, Verisign, ClaimID, myopenid, etc.) to use as my issuer, they (the issuer) retains knowledge of every site I visit, how often I visit, when I visit etc.

One of my goals is to minimize the information about me that is collected by 3rd parties that do not “need to know”. I was hoping you could tell me how/if that is addressed by OpenID.

By: Adam Marsh

Adam Marsh — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:15:50 +0000

Awesome to see more cool stuff happening with OpenID and web identity. However, two things occur to me right away:

(1) First step for users: the clickpass.com registration form. I thought the idea was to have *less* logins? If I have to create yet another account, I’d probably just back up and do it for the site I started at.

(2) First step for site owners: install an OpenID library. That’s a pretty big deal, and it quickly gets much more complicated; you also have to alter your user database and add code to distinguish between OpenID and password users.

Of course, this isn’t exactly a disinterested critique: for you site owners out there who want to support OpenID *and* the other IDs folks already have like Facebook and Yahoo, check out http://www.prefpass.com (similar name, great minds think alike and all that…).

PrefPass solves both the above issues:

(1) First step for users: click on a familiar icon like Facebook, Yahoo or AIM. Then sign in at your ID provider (OpenID or not) and bounce back all registered and ready to go. No sidetracking users to prefpass.com!

(2) First step for site owners: fill in a few forms and paste some code snippets on your registration and login pages. No libraries and no database or code work.

Even better for site owners, there’s also no worries about security or stale IDs: since PrefPass creates a *normal login* for users behind the scenes, there’s no confusion between accounts, no lock-in, and no problems when user decide they don’t like the ID they used to register.

Oh, and by the way, we also have a WordPress plugin http://about.prefpass.com/site.....ess-plugin

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:53:31 +0000

@Joe Cascio (#22): It’s an either-or with ClickPass. You can choose to use a specific URL as the identity URL you’re logging in with, or you use a disassociated URL to obscure your identity. This is what Yahoo is doing; as long as you prove that you control a URL to the same relying party, you’re leveraging identity.

@Stacie: okay, thanks. What does that have to do with?

@Marco (#29): Blogger accepts third-party OpenIDs. Google doesn’t anywhere else, but it’s not true that they don’t across the board.

By: Ryan Janssen

Ryan Janssen — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:37:06 +0000

There was a great panel about this at SXSW, which blogged pretty extensively: http://drstarcat.com

By: Dan F.

Dan F. — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:35:11 +0000

Why would Scott Kveton, who works for Vidoop, be involved in his company’s competitor? Vidoop aims to make money from OpenID (and who could blame them), and I would assume Clickpass does to. I understand that Vidoop is a big proponent of OpenID in general, but this just seems strange to me.