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Facebook has announced it’s plans to have Facebook Connect on several major websites such as Digg. This accomplishes the same thing that OpenID does, but it’s not OpenID.
Still, some on OpenID’s side see a silver lining here.
“Facebook Connect is one of the best thing to happen to OpenID,” says Plaxo vice president of marketing John McCrea. “It’s an elegant login implementation, not built on the open stack, but it accomplishes the same things promised by the open stack.”
…Another hurdle: 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.
How is this good news?