How Screwed Up Has Google Username Management Become? Observe

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Darren Barefoot whipped up this funny graphic showing perfectly why anyone who has been using Google products for more than a couple of years has experienced some grief dealing with the mess of multiple logons and passwords. First, Google services had seperate logins, and Gmail didn’t exist. Then they created Google Accounts and most were Gmail addresses. Then they slowly started moving old accounts over to Google Accounts. Then they bought a bunch of companies with their own logons. Oy!
Enjoy:

Feedburner is almost definitely switching to Google Accounts once integrated, but you know what really scares me? The idea of YouTube accounts migrating to Google Accounts. They’d never be stupid enough to do that, would they?

Original post by Nathan Weinberg