So you type in your OpenID URL. (If you have a Google account you will have to type https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id I presume.) Didn't you want to get notified in your email box every time there is some activity from your friends, or other interests? Great! Please get your email address verified as well.
Good now that we have a Facebook account with our OpenID we can sign in to our account, or Facebook connect, with it. Now wait a minute. I can sign in with either my OpenID or Email address it doesnt matter! So what are you going to choose? Your OpenID or Email address to sign in?
Now the above is for people who have an OpenID, people who are a small minority among a large majority of people who have not even heard of OpenID. The large majority are going to sign up with their email addresses anyway. They are not about to go get themselves an OpenID just to sign up to Facebook.
Is this a farce? Or is it a feigned right hook, before they land the knockout left hook to OpenID?
Once we have all the OpenID officionadoes and users signed up to facebook with their email addresses how about releasing email addresses with Facebook Connect? BAM! Every RP who requires an email address will adopt Facebook connect before adopting OpenID. Because OpenID has still a long way to go as far as OP SREG support goes. Your NASCAR buttons will become a single Facebook Connect button.
I had wanted Facebook to support OpenID as an OP with SREG Email support in an earlier post. These guys dont get it do they? They are virtually sitting on a Gold mine, If only they supported OpenID as an OP. Looks like they are going the Apple way back in the 80's.
The battle lines are drawn. It is Facebook Vs The Rest. We will see if history repeats itself!
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> The large majority are going to sign up with their email addresses anyway. They are not about to go get themselves an OpenID just to sign up to Facebook.
The large majority *already have* an OpenID, and are commonly logged into it while they browse. This is because so many huge email providers and social networking sites already provide an OpenID for all their accounts.
The trick isn't to get the “large majority” to *get* an OpenID; it's to get them to *use* the OpenID they already have.
Yes I understand. It is a nice concept. But I doubt it can be implemented successfully. There are lots of problems to solve to get it right.
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