[OpenID] myspace, facebook questioned on openid

[Story Henry]

Thanks for the link. I agree. I don't think they really wanted to  
make too much noise about the limitations of their business model.  
Under pressure they even tried to state that they were not in the  
social networking business at all, because none of their users  
understood that term...

I have written up my take on this here:

http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/social_networking_3_0

Henry


On 4 Aug 2007, at 10:14, Steven Livingstone wrote:

> For anyone interested, i recently watched the Stanford Always On  
> event where "Social Networking 3.0" was discussed with the  
> following folks:
>
>  - Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Facebook
>  - Travis Katz, SVP, MySpace International
>  - Rich Rosenblatt, CEO, Demand Media
>  - Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning
>  - Karl Jacob, CEO, Wallop
>  - Charlene Li, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
>
> I asked them about OpenID support (maybe 10 or 15 minutes into the  
> broadcast)... and got some interesting responses.
> Not entirely sure some of them understand what OpenID does.... but  
> i guess these are the challenges of opening up.
>
> Archive is here :
> http://tinyurl.com/2p7q55
>
>
> Regards,
> Steven
> http://livz.org