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

[Dick Hardt]

On 16-Sep-08, at 2:55 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2008, at 14:35 , Dick Hardt wrote:
>
>> ... and I think the user experience is
>> superior with Facebook Connect than OpenID.
>
> Very likely. For this reason, I started this thread in the first  
> place ...:
>
> I'd like to assemble a group of like-minded individuals/companies  
> and put together the "glue", extra conventions, user interface  
> optimizations, whatever is required ... to define an (at least)  
> feature-equivalent open technology stack that also equals or beats  
> whatever non-open technology stacks may exist. (not specifically  
> singling out FaceBook Connect here, as I agree with David on this  
> thread that other social networks et al will come up with similar  
> things over the next year, too.)
>
> The focus would not be spec development per se, but integration of  
> what exists and optimization etc.

I don't think that the Facebook team wanted to reinvent anything -- so  
if the tech was already available to do what they wanted, they would  
have used them.

Personally, I think new specs would need to be developed. So I will  
watch with interest to see what you come up!

-- Dick