ignifero

tl;dr ... haha not really. Google is on a roll. I both fear and love it.

But it's not like he joined the company last quarter. If the launch of g+ indicated anything, google is speeding up.

The implementation at browserid.org returns the email only. So there's no way to change the email without visiting all the sites you've registered in using browserid.

- No need to register your application with browserid.org

- No need to use an oauth library (just 1 GET request)

- Oauth provides access to user data on the provider, while browserID provides no data. Less anxiety for the users.

- No request_token/access_token pairs

- In the future, the user will (hopefully) be able to change his default browserid and as a developer you just don't care.

Do an online poll and ask people "Do you know your openID" vs "Do you know your email". Users are trained to use emails for login, and that's a significant investment already.

I believe you will definately rely on one (of many possible) 3rd parties.