Ma.gnolia Blog: On Our New Front Doors

Comment: Dan Rubin

Dan Rubin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:57:11 PDT

hoo-rah, Larry. I've been talking this up a lot lately in person (FOWA, SXSW) - not writing about it unfortunately, but that'll come soon enough.

We need more people/organizations to set examples like you have and take big strides toward the next generation of the web (not just the social aspect - the implications of things like OpenID and OAuth reach much farther).

Kudos to Ma.gnolia for being one of the first to make the leap.

Comment: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:21:33 PDT

This is definitely a good thing and forces a wider conversation about the utility of OpenID and remote credentials generally. Much needed!

Comment: Vidoop LLC

Vidoop LLC — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:06:23 PDT

Well said Larry... Cheers for no more silos!

Comment: Jason Garber

Jason Garber — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:57:39 PDT

This is great news, Larry! Congratulations to the whole team for being the first (that I'm aware of, anyway) to take the initiative and lead by example.

Comment: Richard Murray

Richard Murray — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:20:54 PDT

It's one thing to 'encourage' new registrations to use alternative sign-on methods. It is entirely another to prohibit traditional password access. The people I wish to invite to use Magnolia do not have OpenIDs or Facebook accounts, don't want them and in many cases are not interested. Your approach simply creates a wall. Not good.

Comment: Larry Halff

Larry Halff — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:26:29 PDT

We're sorry you're frustrated with the changes we've made. Obviously, we think that this is the future of direction of the distributed web.