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Christian Scholz

A European Perspective on "FB Connect vs. OpenID" - 2 views

  • For website owners it only makes sense to support any kind of ” [Facebook/ Google/ Open] Connect” solution, if the majority of their user-base also maintains their social graph at one of those “Social Graph/Identity” providers. Speaking for Germany: that is neither for Facebooks Connect nor Googles Friend Connect (also with the Plaxo combo) the case yet!
  • We build a solution upon the OpenStack, because than it will work with much more websites, who support the OpenStack as well as a consumer
  • If you look at the rest of the world - outside of “Facebook-Land” - you also realize and understand much better, why it is so important to find an holistic solution approach - build on open standards - to solve the issue FB Connect addresses: we live in a very diversified world and if everybody comes up with a proprietary solution, it will be just a big mess in the end.
Christian Scholz

As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow | Epicenter from Wired.com - 0 views

  • The news is sure to be welcomed by Facebook's 120 million users and its potential partners, but it presents a new challenge to proponents of the so-called "open stack" for ID management -- OpenID, OAuth and the related technologies that allow users to share data across multiple websites.
  • It's also good for everyone's business. By being able to use a Facebook ID to log in to Digg, the user's barrier of entry is lowered significantly and Digg gets more traffic
  • But where Facebook Connect is heading towards mass adoption on mainstream sites like Digg, OpenID is currently bogged down by several issues, the largest of which is poor usability.
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  • Facebook Connect was developed independently using proprietary code, so Facebook's system and OpenID are not interoperable
  • Data gathered by Facebook Connect on a third-party site can only go one place once it leaves -- straight back into Facebook
  • clear threat
  • If things continue rolling down this road much longer, OpenID won't be able to catch up
Christian Scholz

MySpace ID vs Facebook Connect: A Battle for Demographics - 0 views

  • it’s not so much that MySpace is losing users in droves as it is that Facebook might be gaining completely new ones
  • much of the split is along the demographic lines you’d expect: Facebook partners include brands targeting more tech savvy and affluent demographics: CBS, CNET, Digg, and Hulu, to name a few, while MySpace touts more mainstream partners such as AOL, Yahoo, and eBay.
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