Comments on: My Design Should Follow Me; “First Dibs” on my username http://blog.stevepoland.com/my-design-should-follow-me-first-dibs-on-my-username/ web entrepreneur | obsessed music fan | b-lo forever! Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:32:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Chris http://blog.stevepoland.com/my-design-should-follow-me-first-dibs-on-my-username/comment-page-1/#comment-1405 Chris Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:31:12 +0000 http://blog.stevepoland.com/?p=344#comment-1405 Good points about the automation difficulty and OpenID. However, consider this additional caveat. Even if such a service were automated, would it still be feasible? Essentially, you're creating accounts for N-subscribers on M-services. Assuming both N and M will grow, you're looking at exponential growth. Even if you have the resources to handle this, I doubt some would-be startup will appreciate you auto-creating a million unused accounts in the hope that someone "may" want to use their service. Good points about the automation difficulty and OpenID. However, consider this additional caveat. Even if such a service were automated, would it still be feasible? Essentially, you’re creating accounts for N-subscribers on M-services. Assuming both N and M will grow, you’re looking at exponential growth. Even if you have the resources to handle this, I doubt some would-be startup will appreciate you auto-creating a million unused accounts in the hope that someone “may” want to use their service.

]]> By: Zvi Band http://blog.stevepoland.com/my-design-should-follow-me-first-dibs-on-my-username/comment-page-1/#comment-1390 Zvi Band Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:44:15 +0000 http://blog.stevepoland.com/?p=344#comment-1390 I think the "first dibs" idea would be really cool... hard to automate though, given each service would have its own unique system. But it could be a good use of low-cost labor, to pay to have someone overseas register you for a service the second it pops up on TechCrunch or Mashable... of course if everyone went with an openid or Facebook login, some kind of centralized authentication, you would never have to worry about this again :-) I think the “first dibs” idea would be really cool… hard to automate though, given each service would have its own unique system. But it could be a good use of low-cost labor, to pay to have someone overseas register you for a service the second it pops up on TechCrunch or Mashable…

of course if everyone went with an openid or Facebook login, some kind of centralized authentication, you would never have to worry about this again :-)

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