Facebook Goes OpenID
Facebook now supports OpenID and Gmail (!) to login and even register: maximum recognition for OpenID; http://tr.im/lJyI
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 07:33 on 19. May 2009 Permalink |
TC: “Now, Facebook isn’t the first major company to hop on board the OpenID movement – we’ve seen announcements from Google, Microsoft, and a bevy of others. But for the most part these are only signing on as ‘issuing parties’, which means they’ll let you log in with their accounts on other OpenID supporting sites. But they’re not ‘relying parties’, which means that they won’t accept OpenID logins created through other services. In other words, Google is happy to let you use your Gmail account to log in to Facebook, but you can’t use your OpenID-enabled Microsoft ID to login to a Google service.”
Mashable: “The implementation doesn’t seem to be live yet for everyone, but the focus on Gmail is especially interesting, given Google, through Friend Connect, is a bit of a competitor to Facebook, and Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), and Google are all offering identity platforms of their own that would seemingly compete with OpenID. – But, the integration seems to serve Facebook’s goal of establishing your social graph on the site, by helping you friend your existing Gmail contacts that use the social network. Facebook adds that Gmail users ‘get up and running after registering even faster than before, find their friends easily, and quickly engage on the site.’”