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Great- this means that everyone needs to start taking OpenID seriously. I'm not sure what incentive there is for Facebook to join the OpenSocial movement since
by kwamenum86 18y ago
Great- this means that everyone needs to start taking OpenID seriously. I'm not sure what incentive there is for Facebook to join the OpenSocial movement since, given enough time, Facebook Connect could easily become the standard open login protocol. If Facebook's goal is to integrate OpenSocial into Facebook then they could have skipped a huge headache for themselves and developers (in the form of a herky-jerky start) by simply going with OpenSoc from the beginning.
- mtrichardson 18y agoOpenSocial and OpenID aren't really related (except that they are both part of the open stack). Facebook can easily continue to do whatever they want with their API and still do OpenID. It would be nice, however, if they did a hybrid OpenID/OAuth flow and then have an OpenSocial API that you could get access to with the oauth token. The user experience would be pretty much the same.
- kwamenum86 18y agoThey are not related but they are analogs to Facebook platform and Facebook Connect respectively. [edit] Ah I see why you wrote that. I was writing/thinking about two protocols at once and came out with an incoherent comment.