Yesterday, representatives of Facebook officially announced its accession to the OpenID Foundation - a rather interesting move, provided that the platform of Facebook Connect is now even more popular than mentioned OpenID Foundation. In fact, Facebook Connect is a better competitor OpenID Foundation, rather than a partner.At the official Facebook blog has the following message: "We are pleased to announce that we have formalized cooperation with the OpenID Foundation, joining the organization. We hope to be able to successfully use the success of Facebook Connect's own system to work together to create an open and secure system of identification of the user in the Network. " At the same time, the company said nothing about his actual plans for the implementation of OpenID in the system of identification Facebook.
So far it is only on the joint work of partners to improve the system, but not the introduction of OpenID in Facebook. Chris Messina, one of the activists OpenID Foundation writes in his blog as follows: "While Facebook and does not report on their plans for the introduction of Facebook OpenID, the company is actively working to improve the work of the platform. In my view, the introduction of OpenID in the identification of users' most well-known social networks - only a matter of time. "
However, there are other opinions - some have shown no doubt that the system is OpenID will ever be implemented in the platform for Facebook, especially since the current system of identification of Facebook Connect is a much more successful and popular than OpenID.
