[OpenID] Facebook support for OpenID. Where?

[Andrew Arnott]

I haven't studied how Facebook Connect works.  Does it somehow offer more to
the IdP than OpenID does for OPs in terms of useful data then?

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Andrew Arnott
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Peter Watkins <peterw at tux.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 09:08:41PM -0700, Santosh Rajan wrote:
>
> > You can't log in into Facebook with your OpenID unless you are already
> > logged in to another OpenID provider. So if you fire up your browser and
> go
> > straight to Facebook, sorry!
>
> > Ok, so I decided to link my Google Account. I found that I could not link
> to
> > my Google Account without me handing over all my Google contacts!
>
> Right. It's another way for Facebook to learn more about you and your
> acquaintances. It helps them sell more ads. Surely you didn't think the
> goal
> would be simply helping regular users access their Facebook accounts.
> Surely
> you didn't expect something like ID Selector with the names/logos of other
> sites.
>
> I wonder if this means that Facebook might soon be willing to act as an OP.
> I suspect not -- the Connect "product" gives them another way to watch &
> learn
> as its users browse other web sites, and providing an open OP service would
> reduce the incentive for 3rd party sites to go with the full Connect setup.
>
> -Peter
>
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