Facebook Connect: The masses and the fishbowl

Would prefer to see OpenSocial develping faster: A really interesting observation Larry.

As CEO of a niche social network I have long been hoping for an initiative to make my sites easier to sign up to (since the week in may when Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect were first announced in fact). Our toughest challenge is getting new users to give us 2 minute sto sign up. If they can use an existing ID and bring their social graph with them, out site becomes a lot more accessible.

OpenSocial has hardly moved on, but I am not sure I care either as Facebook has it all respects since May -- not least of all volumes of users. It has to be the one to have to get the hiher numbers of users coming over.

That said, I'd rather see this happening in openSocial because of the open nature and the higher level of trust almost anything other than Facebook suggests.

But then I speak as someone who sits in front of a screen all day. Facebook has done a great job of convincing 120 million users that their details of safe and I doubt they'll start freaking too much when those same details start acting as a key to a whole load of other sites they want to be able to use easily.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
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