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By: Facebook Becomes Largest OpenID Relying Party | Viningmedia Nieuws

Facebook Becomes Largest OpenID Relying Party | Viningmedia Nieuws — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:41:47 +0000

[...] goes live with its complete support as a relying party for the standard, which it announced late last month. It’s a major win for OpenID, which has long had to deal with major companies only [...]

By: Facebook Becomes Largest OpenID Relying Party

Facebook Becomes Largest OpenID Relying Party — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:19:10 +0000

[...] big boost today as Facebook goes live with its complete support for OpenID, which it announced late last month. It’s a major win for OpenID, which has long had to deal with major companies only [...]

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Sat, 16 May 2009 00:19:16 +0000

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Sat, 09 May 2009 07:18:12 +0000

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Fri, 08 May 2009 10:02:58 +0000

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By: Next09: Video Interview With Chris Messina On The Current State Of OpenID

Next09: Video Interview With Chris Messina On The Current State Of OpenID — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:41:54 +0000

By: Facebook First Big Site To Really Embrace OpenID

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By: Facebook Trends Series #2: Facebook Connect

Facebook Trends Series #2: Facebook Connect — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:51:11 +0000

[...] it seemed that Facebook Connect was positioned to be Facebook’s answer to the Open ID, but last week Facebook was one of the first sites to announce that they will be embracing the Open ID and allowing users with a Yahoo, Google, AOL, MySpace or Microsoft account to create a Facebook [...]

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Who is Hahleq? : News Items - April 30 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:52:36 +0000

[...] Facebook First Big Site To Really Embrace OpenID Finally an announcement in the OpenID world about an RP! Everyone wants to rule the world as IPs, but no one (that matters) wants to reciprocate. Guess I can’t say that anymore as FB certainly matters (for now). [...]

By: OpenID + OAuth: transcending social networks « My Perspective

OpenID + OAuth: transcending social networks « My Perspective — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:48:27 +0000

[...] fact that social networks will be like air motivates me. And the fact that I will be able to login Facebook with MySpace credentials hints that I am on the right track. Finally when I see services (with a business model behind it) [...]

By: Ray Cromwell

Ray Cromwell — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:13:01 +0000

DT,
There’s no real benefit to just having a registration, there is benefit to having an active and engaged user. As an Issuing Party, users could register on your site, and then spend 100% of their time on a Relying Party site. Facebook does not lose out when MySpace users log into Facebook, they gain traffic at MySpace’s cost and expense. This just makes it easier for MySpace users to migrate, by lowering the account creation barrier, meanwhile MySpace is shouldered with the cost.

Likewise, if Facebook becomes an Issuing Party, then the proprietary “Facebook Connect” button on CNN changes from an FB Logo into an “Signin with OpenID” button. That means Facebook loses a prominent branded button on all of the relying sites (effectively a free ad), as well as any proprietary advantage their Facebook Connect API allowed them.

Anyway you slice it, the the cost of being an IP is much higher than an RP, and the benefit of being an IP is greater if and only if, you can get the RP sites to funnel data back to you. (which is what FB Connect does)

It makes the most logical sense for the sites with the largest number of user accounts registered to be Issuing Parties, not Relying Parties. If you’ve got 100-400 million people signed up with accounts, there is great benefit in allowing your hundreds of millions of users to use their account as a single-sign-on across the web (as FB Connect shows!), and comparably less use in letting people log into your site with other credentials, because there is a very high probability that the user’s primary credential is already owned by your site.

I think any large site should be an IP and a RP, but definately an IP. The true test of FB’s openness would be allowing people to use OpenID IP or making FB Connect somehow compatible with it.

By: TGC

TGC — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:51:23 +0000

is something like this secure at all for fb users? social networking site are already huge targets for hackers and spammers. i'm a little worried. i took a look on justaskgemalto, its a good digital security resource site, some decent information

By: DT

DT — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:50:01 +0000

Ray, the name of the game is still the walled garden. As an Issuing Party only, a company like FB forces users to sign up directly with them. Then logging into CNN with the FB logo right there on the page only increases their brand.

Whereas once you’re a Relying Party, you lose control of your walled garden because you’re allowing people (like MySpace users) the benefits of your site without forcing them to register there and increase your user count.

I think that has been Mike’s point.

By: FaceBook accepteert andere OpenID’s | Platform Open Identiteit

FaceBook accepteert andere OpenID’s | Platform Open Identiteit — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:43:30 +0000

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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:49:45 +0000

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By: Social Networking Watch

Social Networking Watch — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:25:39 +0000

Facebook First Bit Site To Really Embrace OpenID …

TECH CRUNCH — Apr 27 — In addition to the news that they are making activity stream data available to third party developers, Facebook will also be making an announcement around OpenID. The announcement is that they’ll become what’s called……

By: Guias Local

Guias Local — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:19:55 +0000

For Facebook this is a little risky. Although we have to give them credit for trying something new.