Round-up of OpenID and Facebook Connect news

Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Steve

Here’s a quick round-up of OpenID and Facebook Connect related news that was fairly interesting:

Memo to OpenID: Keep it simple, please – an argument for OpenID to try to simplify its design in order to appeal to more consumers.

Facebook Connect: Scary but good – CBS announces that they’ll support Facebook Connect as a login mechanism for their sites, CNET explains why users shouldn’t be afraid of it.

Flock OpenID support a small step for slow-moving standard – MySpace and Vidoop have partnered with Flock to build OpenID support directly into the Flock browser.

As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID’s Challenges Grow – A look at the challenges that OpenID faces with the growing popularity and adoption of Facebook Connect

Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate? – A great look at the arguments for the two possible directions of social networking – more federation of data or new tools to aggregate multiple sources.

OpenID Gets Political Support from Barack Obama – Change.gov recently started supporting OpenID as a method to post comments on its blog.

Filed under: Consumer Web, Social Computing


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One Response to “Round-up of OpenID and Facebook Connect news”

  1. Brian Kissel, on December 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 pm Said:

    The OpenID Foundation and its member companies have done a lot in the last few months to address market needs and to help accelerate adoption. See a summary of what’s been happening and provide your feedback here http://blog.janrain.com/2008/12/response-to-wired-blog-on-facebook.html or here http://blog.janrain.com/2008/11/openid-user-experience-data.html