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Sweet! I was just commenting in the YOS story about how FB Connect could easily become a market leader in cross-site logins. I've been wondering when they'd ann
by lux 18y ago
Sweet! I was just commenting in the YOS story about how FB Connect could easily become a market leader in cross-site logins. I've been wondering when they'd announce a release date.
- mdasen 18y agoWould you use FB Connect for an app? I'm asking because the way they forced the FB Platform into oblivion makes me very wary. At any time they could decide to eliminate it and now you have no registered users. Considering that Facebook has had a history of being just open enough to encourage lock-in that one later regrets, I just wouldn't want to use it.
- gaius 18y agoThis is why I like paying for things, then you have a contract. Building a business on something that relies utterly on someone elses whim is silly. Not that they're bad people, mind; their agenda just differs from yours.
- lux 18y agoI would never rely on it as my only means of allowing a user to log in, but I would definitely and plan to use it as an alternate way they can. If Facebook cancels or cripples Connect, then I'd still have the users and a means of letting them continue to use my service. But I agree 100%, never depend solely on a free service from a commercial company assuming it has anything but its own interest in mind. If you no longer fit their best interest, you're toast.