As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow | Epicenter from Wired.com - 0 views
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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.
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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
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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
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Data gathered by Facebook Connect on a third-party site can only go one place once it leaves -- straight back into Facebook