Having gone through the process to register for StumbleUpon and another site called InternetEvolution I’m absolutely amazed at the stupidity of registration even at this date. With all of the web technologies can’t someone anyone create a basic registration module that saves time and works and integrates into the 1,000’s of different platforms out there? I mean we are talking about some very simple unique identifiers

name

address

telephone

e-mail

etc

I see problems with Linked in (always logging me out) I see problems even with my own sites i.e. http://blockbustergraffiti.com. InternetEvolution was especially interesting since i was told to register and I dutifly did, several attempts, I did not click MA for Massachussetts etc. But once I was registered I was reading an article, check out this un-SEO- friendly URL http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=173854 (similar to my own here on SpeechRep.com) article appears interesting enough and I wanted to forward to my partner Ron at http://twitter.com/gorongo and now I had to type my name and e-mail in again to forward this to Ron. You can bet that I will NOT be back at this site just because they waste my time.

StumbledUpon was the single worst experience I have ever had trying to just register for a service/web site. Too long to go into and I won’t waste my time.

There are single sign on technologies in the works but there has not been a single standard yet adopted in my view. To get some better insights on where this is going I did do an interview with Mike Jones and Kim Cameron both of Microsoft.