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I thought about it but I rejected the idea. Firstly because I want to keep the number of fields to a minimum. Secondly because I'm not convinced that those "confirm your... whatever" fields actually accomplish much (although I can see more value in a "confirm your password" field than a "confirm your email address" field).

I think the presence of the "forgotten your password?" link takes care of the contingency that someone incorrectly entered their password to begin with. They can click that link and request a reset link to be sent to their email address. But I believe that those people would be in the minority so rather than make everyone confirm their password to begin with, I think it's best to deal with the edge cases as they arise.

I think that these kind of sign-up details need to be handled on a site-by-site basis. I don't think there's a right or wrong way to do it for all sites—it depends on the audience. Given the tech-savvy nature of the main activity on Huffduffer (podcasting), I'm going to assume a reasonable level of tech-savviness on the part of the people signing up for it.

If I'm proven wrong and lots of people are entering their chosen passwords incorrectly in the sign-up form, I'll amend it accordingly. Time will tell.

Well, you have already established that those are your websites by using rel="me" to link to them (or by using rel="me" to link back to your own site). But yeah, I take your point that some kind of filtering mechanism would be good.

Yeah, I might add comments soon. But I don't think I'll be adding "friends" without a very good reason.

Ooh, good catch.

Originally the URL structure was going to be /people/username but I decided to change that during the production. I must have missed it in the welcome email. I've rectified that now.

Thanks for letting me know.

Words can't express how bad this practice is.

It's bad enough that mynameise is using the password anti-pattern. What they then do with that information is confirmation of what makes this such so dodgy.

Sending a twitter message from somebody else's account is effectively a form of identity theft, akin to sending an email from somebody else's account.

So... this must be some new definition of "near future" that I'm unfamiliar with. – adactio, on September 24, 2008 01:16

Quicktime Pro should be all you need. You can select a portion of a movie, copy it and paste it into a new movie file which you can then export with a myriad of options. The exporting options include exporting for email and exporting for web.

"Interesting" is a subjective term. Many people would find the "amateur" karaoke video *more* interesting than a demo of some piece of software. In fact, thinking about it, maybe I should replace the demo video with the karaoke video. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yay! – adactio, on July 19, 2008 12:45

Amit, I think you're missing the point. By telling your users that it's perfectly acceptable for them to divulge the passwords for their email accounts on a third-party website like Slideshare, you are effectively teaching them how to be phished.

I'd be interested in hearing how your internal discussions are going, particularly in light of the fact that all three providers that you are slurping from (GMail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail) offer secure authorization now. See Flickr's example of how to do this the *right* way: http://www.flickr.com/import/people/ – adactio, on July 08, 2008 13:13