Comments on: Facebook steps into OpenID Foundation

We may not see OpenID coming to Facebook Connect anytime soon, but this is a big step for the social network that many open-standards advocates once wrote off for its walled-garden nature.

[lordmorgul]

I think this is odd news and hard to figure out. They had the opportunity to allow facebook users to login with their own OpenID long ago and it would have taken a very small effort. They now have a NotOpenAtAll-ID of their very own, which is not OpenID or even similar in nature (it is a centralized online identification compared on the decentralized open id which is conceptually opposite). I really wonder where they are headed with this, but what I want from Facebook is to allow my already existing OpenID provider to be my access to Facebook. Until they do that, they are not going to please me, no matter what Facebook Connect morphs into.

[bkkissel]

For a look at what an integrated Facebook, MySpace, and OpenID login experience can be, check out https://www.mixx.com/login?return=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixx.com%2F , http://uservoice.com/session/new , or http://www.kalydo.com/#openid

[WeCanDoBIZ]

This is odd news indeed, but welcome. Website owners everywhere have been wondering whether they should support OpenID from a third party provider, Google Friend Connect or Facebook Connect and this move could provide some answers once we see where it's going.

I wonder if this move by Facebook was prompted in anyway by W3C agreeing to put together a Social Web Interoperability Incubator Group a few weeks back (http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/report#Next)?

Ian Hendry
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