Comments on: CNET goes live with Facebook Connect

Now you can log in to CNET with your Facebook ID.

[Archie_i]

yeah, it works. I think this is where we are going. Connected, mashable web - soon it will be hard to tell on which page you started out.

[griffiw]

yay! this makes life so much easier...

[Doxynatas]

Ha....I've been following this company that integrates Facebook Connect and they are running a promotion now. Just got mine done and it works!!!!! : www.facebooklicious.com

[ccheever]

cool

[jtjj1234]

Sweet it does work :)!

[esolomon15]

It works but I don't really see the practical application for it yet.

[DubVmarty]

I never would have created a cnet account without this..... ever.

[tkabal]

Test of facebook connect on news.com

[brightstarbeing]

Makes me wonder why so many other sign-in schemes didn't fly. Like Microsoft Passport. At one point, it was in many places. It failed so badly, Microsoft abandoned it outside of their own sites.

<3 FB Connect

[MrZoo]

Yup. It really works! YEAH!

[ndki2]

Interesting that you chose an implementation creating or linking a separate local identifier, and probably a model we'll see other sites follow. It's very informative to see which federated identity models are catching on in the consumer space.

[zcollvee]

It doesn't work for me...

[gagahput3ra]

Ok then, this is my first comment using FbConnect. :)

[ishakil]

test

[adamfisk]

testing 1,2,3

[Jayjax2]

Nice, I will use the commenting system a lot more now. Same concept as OpenID.

[dobatah]

trying it out right away!

[Joetwopointoh]

I made a simple CNET account ages ago, my browser (Flock) remembers it and whenever I see an entry on CNET I want to comment on I just do. Flock also connects to and informs me of activities on the various other places I may go such as facebook, myspace, flickr, youtube digg etc. So what's the advantage? Even just using firefox etc. the cnet ID can easily be remembered so one never need worry about logging in to comment.

[Wei_Zhu]

That approach works as long as you never change computers :-) I still couldn't recover my Yahoo ID because Yahoo won't send new password to my email account unless I answer the secret questions (something I entered years ago) correctly.

I have been reading CNET everyday for years but never bothered to create an account. It feels good to finally write a comment here. Congrat to the CNET team.

Disclosure: I am a biased party on this topic.

[nowimcool]

this is the first website I've seen use this, it's pretty cool. But I can imagine it making Facebook rather annoying in the future. We'll see I guess.

cheers.