It would be nice, if they just joined with the OpenID community though. I mean, out of all the sites that is a virtual address book (outside of your e-mail), Facebook could be the best OpenID provider out there. They don't even need to give the contacts and the network, but just the information (b/c the user would have to enter it anyway).
There is huge business potential for Facebook as it becomes the central hub to sign into other sites and it has huge potential for publishers who want to access the Facebook base. I'm guessing a business guy though is afraid that it would kill their competitive edge by being more open though.
That would be awesome if they joined. If only we could get Google to extend open social to Facebook... I don't think these guys are realizing what they could do if they worked together. And it's not like it would cost them anything either.
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It would be nice, if they just joined with the OpenID community though. I mean, out of all the sites that is a virtual address book (outside of your e-mail), Facebook could be the best OpenID provider out there. They don't even need to give the contacts and the network, but just the information (b/c the user would have to enter it anyway).
There is huge business potential for Facebook as it becomes the central hub to sign into other sites and it has huge potential for publishers who want to access the Facebook base. I'm guessing a business guy though is afraid that it would kill their competitive edge by being more open though.
That would be awesome if they joined. If only we could get Google to extend open social to Facebook... I don't think these guys are realizing what they could do if they worked together. And it's not like it would cost them anything either.