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this is good UX

Google now supports federated login; your users can now log into your website or application using their Google account. The goal of federated login is improve the online login experience for everyone by (1) minimizing the number of different names and passwords people need for the sites they visit, and (2) letting developers deploy web sites without setting up a login system. Google's login authentication uses the OpenID 2.0 protocol, which has open source implementations available for a number of different development platforms used by Google Data API developers. (Currently enables for regular Google accounts only.)

Apache makes everything unintelligible.

We should meet these guys.

I like the divergence, transformation, convergence model being described here. The author also does a good job of narrowing down the task into a single audience first (without consulting the requirements documentation) to arrive at some core ideas before accepting input from other stakeholders.

First, a really useful tool. Second, I like this site's design. I think as a product development company, we should be looking more like these guys than, say, an agency. And our site should re-inforce, in the same way that this site does, that we are a product company by making the site look more like a product itself.

I'm thinking about this for both the office and home.

From the beginning, newspapers sought to invent the Web in their own image by repurposing the copy, values, and temperament found in their ink-and-paper editions.

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