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

[David Recordon]

Considering that we're currently having to verify a signature by  
concatenating half a dozen cookie names, it would make the login  
process easier and use existing OpenID RP code that Movable Type  
already has.  The value I see is in making "RP" developer's lives  
easier if they're already working with OpenID and/or OAuth.  This  
isn't to say that people won't integrate Facebook Connect, as it is  
really valuable, but over the next year as other social networks add  
similar functionality based on open web technologies Facebook will  
start to be left behind.  (Like with what is starting to happen with  
OpenSocial)

--David

On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Dick Hardt wrote:

>
> On 16-Sep-08, at 12:43 PM, David Recordon wrote:
>
>> I actually disagree.  I think Facebook Connect could be implemented
>> atop OpenID and OAuth.  The first interaction is login where OpenID
>> can be used to assert the user's profile URL.
>
> Of course it COULD be implemented with OpenID, but what would it  
> gain Facebook and the user?
>
> I don't see the improved user experience or developer experience.
>
> -- Dick