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Facebook Connect Launch Scheduled For November 30

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Facebook Connect has been a rushed mess. As a developer for one of the launch partners, I have been frustrated with constant instability, lack of / incoherent documentation, fuzzy launch dates, and most importantly - unclear reasons as to why I should spend time integrating Connect.

The whole idea of FB Connect seems to be getting outside developers to contribute to a closed version of openID.

Agreed. I've been working with it too - for touting how it "opens up facebook" it certainly lacks a lot of features...

Sweet! I was just commenting in the YOS story about how FB Connect could easily become a market leader in cross-site logins. I've been wondering when they'd announce a release date.

Would you use FB Connect for an app? I'm asking because the way they forced the FB Platform into oblivion makes me very wary. At any time they could decide to eliminate it and now you have no registered users. Considering that Facebook has had a history of being just open enough to encourage lock-in that one later regrets, I just wouldn't want to use it.

This is why I like paying for things, then you have a contract. Building a business on something that relies utterly on someone elses whim is silly. Not that they're bad people, mind; their agenda just differs from yours.

I would never rely on it as my only means of allowing a user to log in, but I would definitely and plan to use it as an alternate way they can. If Facebook cancels or cripples Connect, then I'd still have the users and a means of letting them continue to use my service.

But I agree 100%, never depend solely on a free service from a commercial company assuming it has anything but its own interest in mind. If you no longer fit their best interest, you're toast.

im not the biggest fan of connect. but i there are some neat potential uses.

for example, would be useful to know what my friends watch when im on netflix.

I wish Facebook Connect would be compatible with OpenID.

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