Comments on: It’s just my email password… http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tara Kelly http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password/comment-page-1#comment-38016 Tara Kelly Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:57:54 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password#comment-38016 @Sam RE: "Then people that care can put in their 'contacts only, no email' password." Wow - that would make things *really* complicated. I'm often surprised at how many people don't even know how to use folders in their webmail account. I can't see them being able to understand (and setting up) permission based passwords. It's definitely a problem though. @Sam
RE: “Then people that care can put in their ‘contacts only, no email’ password.”

Wow – that would make things *really* complicated. I’m often surprised at how many people don’t even know how to use folders in their webmail account. I can’t see them being able to understand (and setting up) permission based passwords.

It’s definitely a problem though.

]]> By: Craig Overend http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password/comment-page-1#comment-38008 Craig Overend Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:58:24 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password#comment-38008 Listening to one of the recent newsganglive podcasts, a startup mentioned 20% of people were entering their email details in order to 'tell their friends.' Retraining people when services like Twitter make it difficult to find the 'Skip this' or worse sites that use a 'do this later' that repeats attempts to get those details, will be a challenge. Listening to one of the recent newsganglive podcasts, a startup mentioned 20% of people were entering their email details in order to ‘tell their friends.’ Retraining people when services like Twitter make it difficult to find the ‘Skip this’ or worse sites that use a ‘do this later’ that repeats attempts to get those details, will be a challenge.

]]> By: Sam http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password/comment-page-1#comment-38001 Sam Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:22:50 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password#comment-38001 It might be too late. Any system that offers an API instead of scraping requires that the user bounce through a few pages to do the same thing that took one page before. My guess is that this is one of those cases where the internet has been trained to put in their username and password and all the ways to fix it are a worse user experience. The real solution might be to have multiple passwords for the same account that all have different access levels. Then people that care can put in their "contacts only, no email" password. It might be too late. Any system that offers an API instead of scraping requires that the user bounce through a few pages to do the same thing that took one page before. My guess is that this is one of those cases where the internet has been trained to put in their username and password and all the ways to fix it are a worse user experience.

The real solution might be to have multiple passwords for the same account that all have different access levels. Then people that care can put in their “contacts only, no email” password.

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