[OpenID] Musing on FaceBook, OpenID and the next mountain to climb

[Johannes Ernst]

The trick, as usual, is to keep the "small pieces loosely joined" true  
as the pieces are put together much more tightly from a productization  
perspective. Right now FB and OpenID are the opposite ends of the  
spectrum -- the truth might well be somewhere in the middle ... let  
try and find out!


On 2008/08/01, at 1:26, SitG Admin wrote:

>> very least -- I agree that we have many pieces, but how to join them
>> is left as an exercise to the implementor, which reduces the
>> likelihood of out-of-the-box interoperability -- something absolutely
>> needed for this business case.
>
> On the other hand, retaining a certain degree of flexibility eases  
> innovation; having to split up joined-together pieces to get a piece  
> of this and a piece of that for a new combination shouldn't be as  
> difficult later on as joining them together is now.
>
> -Shade