Jeremy Keith at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008
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Argues that the password anti-pattern is teaching users to hand over Gmail username and password to import contacts, citing Facebook Plaxo Dopplr and Twitter as examples, and warns this short term convenience poisons long term culture. Notes Google lacks an API so sites resort to passwords, and that safer standards like XFN and OpenID plus XMPP and OAuth are gaining traction as fixes, though migration risk leaves damage if the pattern persists.
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