Will OpenID Lose to Facebook Connect?
Great post at Social Media Times about Facebook Connect:
It was an inevitable that a company would come along an release a standard for single sign on that had the financial backing to go build strong partnerships and more importantly, mainstream buzz. Yesterday Caroline McCarthy highlighted some of the challenges facing OpenID and I have to say the battle between Facebook and the open standards community is about to get pretty fierce.
I really think it might – not because Facebook is “better” – but it is really hard to explain OpenID, ecpesically to non-technical people. Sometimes, after you get done – it is the first time they realize how much information a particular site may know about them. It’s scares them.
If you have not seen Facebook Connect – check out theinsider.com or techcrunch.com
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One thing I forgot to mention – the TechCrunch headline is a classic for this post:
“TechCrunch Is Now ‘In A Relationship’ With Facebook Connect”
That’s a classic…and I guess better than “It’s Complicated”
I think it could make a big difference. It’s always frustrating with OpenID, because some sites participate and some don’t, it’s not really that open (not that Facebook Connect is, either) and Facebook has such a huge user base.
I’ve always thought it would be interesting to create a place where users made a single profile that would then feed various social networking sites, so they could have the same user name across them, keep their info consistent, etc. I think Facebook Connect could become that…