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I wish they would implement an (open, as in, non-corporate) social network and single-sign-on system on top of that. It would be a killer combination, making a firefox tablet more easily marketable.

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There are already lots of smart people (Tent, Diaspora, etc.) working on opening up and decentralizing social networking, which is super awesome. The foundation for that future is already being built, and you can help out: https://tent.io/contribute http://diasporaproject.org/get_involved

As for Single-Sign-On, Persona can already take care of that, today, for virtually any domain / browser combo. You can help out on that, too: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid

The future will be even better if the Tent and Diaspora folks make it easy for their servers to also function as Identity Providers for Persona's protocol. FWIW, it seems like there's interest on both sides to make this happen.

Persona perhaps? https://login.persona.org/

Is it a part of firefoxOS? It could be a great way to push browserID adoption.

It is part of the Marketplace (bundled app store) in Firefox OS. I don't believe Persona is the main identity system in Firefox OS at the moment, but it's very possible it could be in a future version.

Yep! As I understand it, FxOS will ship with a native implementation the Persona APIs. However, I don't believe the devices require any sort of attached identity until you try to make your first purchase in the Marketplace, so it's not like the unboxing experience will be used to bootstrap Persona.

Persona is not a social network, though, just an identity system. But there has been talk of the Persona team potentially cooperating with the Tent (https://tent.io) team.

(edited to remove slangy word "rumblings")

Rumblings?

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