Facebook is one of the biggest supporters of Open Source out there at the moment, most importantly memcache, but a whole host of other things.
IIRC, they rejected OpenID as a platform for the simple reason that the UX sucks, big time, and wasn't likely to improve anytime soon, so they created Connect partially as a challenge to OpenID to get its act in gear.
OpenID has had no serious development since 2007. The UX still sucks. Facebook connect, OTOH, is dead easy, dead effective, and very useful. I use it to comment on various blogs fairly regularly.
I agree that specific site coding isn't necessarily a good thing, but Facebook is so massive, and open source projects in general, and OpenID as a specific, could learn masses from their commitment to a good user friendly experience.
Sure, there are many many flaws with it, but some of it is really really well done.
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Facebook is one of the biggest supporters of Open Source out there at the moment, most importantly memcache, but a whole host of other things.
IIRC, they rejected OpenID as a platform for the simple reason that the UX sucks, big time, and wasn't likely to improve anytime soon, so they created Connect partially as a challenge to OpenID to get its act in gear.
OpenID has had no serious development since 2007. The UX still sucks. Facebook connect, OTOH, is dead easy, dead effective, and very useful. I use it to comment on various blogs fairly regularly.
I agree that specific site coding isn't necessarily a good thing, but Facebook is so massive, and open source projects in general, and OpenID as a specific, could learn masses from their commitment to a good user friendly experience.
Sure, there are many many flaws with it, but some of it is really really well done.