Devon Young

I just read that flickr is to become yet another OpenID server, which is annoying unless it also becomes a consumer. Here’s a list of websites I wish I could log in using my OpenID—

• Flickr (Zooomr just isn’t good enough)
• Wikipedia
• Youtube
• Google
• eBay
• Amazon
• Paypal
• Yahoo!
• Last.fm
• Any online feedreader
• vbulletin (the software, not the website)
• Wordpress (the software, not the website)

Here’s a list of OpenID consumers I actually find useful enough to use—

• ma.gnolia
• Simon Willison’s blog
• iStats
• Livejournal

And that illustrates nicely, why I can’t convince most people I know, to get an OpenID. Sure there’s a lot of “cool” sites that are OpenID consumers, but they don’t mean anything to me. OpenID needs a sort of killer app website.