Comments on: Sears and KMart Adopt OpenID to Simplify Customer Registration and Login While Enhancing the Shopping Experience http://openid.net/2009/07/02/sears-and-kmart-adopt-openid-signin/ Home of the OpenID community Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:11:14 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Pete Hwang http://openid.net/2009/07/02/sears-and-kmart-adopt-openid-signin/#comment-73876 Pete Hwang Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:02:27 +0000 http://openid.net/?p=530#comment-73876 I noticed the Sign in UI above shows simply the Facebook logo, not the alternate Facebook Connect logo. Is Facebook actually an OpenID provider now? I thought they were only a OpenID relying party. Or is the Facebook button actually taking users to Facebook Connect in the background? Is it okay to mix OpenID and Facebook Connect in this way? I noticed the Sign in UI above shows simply the Facebook logo, not the alternate Facebook Connect logo. Is Facebook actually an OpenID provider now? I thought they were only a OpenID relying party.

Or is the Facebook button actually taking users to Facebook Connect in the background? Is it okay to mix OpenID and Facebook Connect in this way?

]]> By: joseph http://openid.net/2009/07/02/sears-and-kmart-adopt-openid-signin/#comment-73335 joseph Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:51:43 +0000 http://openid.net/?p=530#comment-73335 "A top ten retailer" adopting OpenID technology sounds great but has anyone actually had a go at using OpenID on the MySears web page? There's no mention of OpenID in the SignIn pop-up window: it doesn't feature in the displayed list of "third party accounts". This left me thinking, "oh, since i don't have a Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Twitter or MYSpace ID, this is no good to me". There is an OpenID button but you have to go looking for it: click on the "see more" link to display another page and there it is. Having found something, i then clicked on the OpenID button and entered my OpenID URL. At my OpenID Provider's signon page i hit the browser pop-up "Close" button instead of my provider's Sign-On button - a fairly typical user action, right? Half an hour later and the MySears login pop-up is still showing a 'thinking/working' graphic and the text "Logging in via open id..." “A top ten retailer” adopting OpenID technology sounds great but has anyone actually had a go at using OpenID on the MySears web page? There’s no mention of OpenID in the SignIn pop-up window: it doesn’t feature in the displayed list of “third party accounts”. This left me thinking, “oh, since i don’t have a Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Twitter or MYSpace ID, this is no good to me”.

There is an OpenID button but you have to go looking for it: click on the “see more” link to display another page and there it is. Having found something, i then clicked on the OpenID button and entered my OpenID URL. At my OpenID Provider’s signon page i hit the browser pop-up “Close” button instead of my provider’s Sign-On button – a fairly typical user action, right? Half an hour later and the MySears login pop-up is still showing a ‘thinking/working’ graphic and the text “Logging in via open id…”

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