Amit Agarwal asks if newspapers should eliminate the mandatory registration. I agree with Amit that it should be avoided if the registration data is not being used. Of course, sometimes it becomes a necessity if the newspaper wants to play a portal or provide personalization. But as a user, having to enter a username/password for every site is painful. Newspapers can use OpenID. Serves well both of us.


March 2nd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
My company is working to provide a wider adaptation of OpenID by late 2007 or early 2008.
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Kyle, did not understand what you meant by adaptation.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 am
[...] This is also one of the rare instances where the mainstream media sees value in one of the open standards, and I hope others do too. This, along with the recent support, is going to bring OpenID into the limelight for sure. This will help make the average newspaper reader aware of it. Unfortunately that is where it will stop. We cannot push OpenID to the people unless there are widely used services which accept it. I hope newspapers would do this as well. [...]