<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There are two versions of Facebook connect.<div><br></div><div>If you want OAuth 2.0 the new version with the Graph API is what you want.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand the old version is much more widely deployed at this point.</div><div><br></div><div>It is likely that a open protocol on top of OAuth for identity will emerge that will work with Facebook.</div><div><br></div><div>However at this point you will need to implement both protocols.</div><div><br></div><div>A big difference will be in how you deal with the user identifiers.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want FBML and other facebookish things on your site you will need to implement there protocol.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>John B.</div><div><br><div><div>On 2010-06-03, at 8:34 PM, Kent Wang wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'm looking into implementing either Facebook Connect or OpenID on my site. Facebook's social aspects, like sharing activity on my site back to their Facebook is very compelling, but I would prefer OpenID's openness and larger userbase.<br>
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<br>So, if I implement OpenID would I be able to also use the social aspects of Facebook Connect (assuming that the user has a Facebook account)?<br><br>I actually tried to Google this but couldn't find anybody addressing this matter specifically, perhaps because it is not possible.<br>
<br>Thanks in advance.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font>Kent Wang<font color="#888888"><br>
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