26 Jun 01:30
[OpenID] Methods for encouraging adoption of OpenID
From: SitG Admin <sysadmin <at> shadowsinthegarden.com>
Subject: [OpenID] Methods for encouraging adoption of OpenID
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.openid.general
Date: 2008-06-25 23:32:35 GMT
Subject: [OpenID] Methods for encouraging adoption of OpenID
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.openid.general
Date: 2008-06-25 23:32:35 GMT
Aside from the main features of OpenID itself; we can advertise those, but it might not mean much to a normal user. For instance - taking some of the most-visited pages on a site, and classifying them as "OpenID Content": pages that someone must log in with OpenID to view. No other special privileges, but it could at least get people used to the idea of logging in that way. Drawbacks: losing out on the visitors who don't feel like logging in just to gain access to what might otherwise be a public web site. I've been toying with the idea of rotating a few pages at a time into an "available to the general public" area, where visitors can get an idea of what else they might find inside the site; new articles might, for the first week, be exclusively accessible to those logged in with OpenID, before spending 3 weeks out in the open and "archives accessible only with OpenID". Old links would be intercepted and told "Log in with OpenID to see the archive of this material.", and even the absence of old links wouldn't necessarily mean it was all forgotten about; someone already logged in would be able to recommend the page to others, adding the caveat "You'll have to log in using an OpenID." Of course, anyone opposed to this would be able to archive each article during its time in that 3-week window, and mirror it elsewhere for all to see. But that's where existing copyright law comes into play, I think :) -Shade
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