Interesting!<div><br></div><div>Facebook is already an OpenID relying party — but they've hidden away the functionality because of the UX issues.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm guessing that Facebook is using OpenID as the background protocol for single sign-on, similar to what Plaxo did with Google.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>...though, I'm not really sure what "Open IP" is:</div>
<div><br></div><div>"In the short and mid terms we have no plans for further Open IP partnerships in Europe", said Olivan.<br><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Carsten Pötter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sccpffm@gmail.com">sccpffm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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 (<a href="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" target="_blank">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</a>). Both email providers are subsidiaries of United Internet and dominate the German email market.<div>
<br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is Facebook eventually accepting OpenIDs?</div><div>Are Web.de/GMX and Facebook using any vendor specific APIs or extensions?</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone from Facebook here who can shed some light on the topic? Thanks!</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Carsten </div>
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