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DOES YOUR WEBSITE HAVE A LOG IN ?

Well - you’re probably thinking - this is going to make a fun read !!   Does my website have a log in ??  Well damn right it does ( you’re saying to yourself) – we can’t just let any old passer by onto our site!! I mean look at all these big cheeses being hacked like RSA , SONY and even the CIA !! But if users have to log in - that means they need to register and they need to remember yet another user name and possibly -  but not necessarily - another password.    Well - that means that customers desert in droves !  Or does it? Are customers put off when they have to log in ?  Well I guess a lot has to do with whether the service you offer is valuable enough.   Lets see – Twitter, Facebook and Gmail just to name a few at random – you would expect to see some kind of ‘identification ‘ process going on.  And indeed you do.  And now to make it all that much easier – SSO (Single Sign On) ,  OpenID and now BrowserID courtesy of Mozilla ( amongst others ) make our lives much easier when