[OpenID] Facebook Cooperation with German Email Providers?

[Chris Messina]

Interesting!
Facebook is already an OpenID relying party — but they've hidden away the
functionality because of the UX issues.

I'm guessing that Facebook is using OpenID as the background protocol for
single sign-on, similar to what Plaxo did with Google.

It's using OpenID in a perfectly legitimate way — just not how most of us
expect it to be used (i.e. with a user-facing interface).

...though, I'm not really sure what "Open IP" is:

"In the short and mid terms we have no plans for further Open IP
partnerships in Europe", said Olivan.

Chris

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Carsten Pötter <sccpffm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yesterday German email providers Web.de and GMX released a press release
> stating that their users will be able to log in to Facebook using OpenID (
> http://faz-community.faz.net/blogs/netzkonom/archive/2009/08/24/facebook-chooses-german-e-mail-provider-web-de-and-gmx-as-first-open-id-partner-in-europe.aspx).
> Both email providers are subsidiaries of United Internet and dominate the
> German email market.
> So far both providers offered users a "navigator" to log in to various
> social networks, online merchants,... However users had to provide usernames
> and passwords -> password anti-pattern. If I got things right, both
> providers have to become OpenID Providers now. Though why is there an
> explicit cooperation with Facebook?
>
> Is Facebook eventually accepting OpenIDs?
> Are Web.de/GMX and Facebook using any vendor specific APIs or extensions?
>
> Anyone from Facebook here who can shed some light on the topic? Thanks!
>
> Carsten
>
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at lists.openid.net
> http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general
>
>


-- 
Chris Messina
Open Web Advocate

Personal: http://factoryjoe.com
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina

Citizen Agency: http://citizenagency.com
Diso Project: http://diso-project.org
OpenID Foundation: http://openid.net

This email is:   [ ] bloggable    [X] ask first   [ ] private
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/attachments/20090825/c3278505/attachment.htm>