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Facebook Launches OpenID Support - Users Can Now Login With Gmail Accounts

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OpenID support has ruined Facebook. Please join my group 1,000,000+ strong against OpenID.

/joke

Hmm. I couldn't get it to link my delegated OpenID URL.

I also don't see where you're supposed to enter your OpenID URL to log in.

edit: Why the downvote? At least explain what's wrong with my comment. I'm really puzzled how Facebook's OpenID support is supposed to work, since it's clearly not working for me.

Looks broken to me as well. I went to Settings->Linked Accounts->Open ID and tried both my website (which has a openid link in it) and the direct url of my openid and it rejects them both. They DO work, I use them all the time with this site and others.

ETA - yep, I'm using phpMyID as well.

Same result; apparently phpMyID isn't supported. :P

Here is the Facebook Developer blog post: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=246

I look forward to the day Facebook can totally stop managing passwords. That means my grandmother will be using OpenID.

I apologize for the moderate threadjack here, but I have a lot of respect for you guys and would like your opinion on something...

How do you feel about these sorts of things (openid, I mean). I remember microsoft trying it long long ago and it being a colossal failure. A good friend of mine and I have a little blog/news aggregator/comment pool thing that we're both having a bit of fun with and he keeps suggesting that we use google connect.

To me, these sorts of things take away from the community feel of places like HN, or reddit, or wherever else...

What do you guys think? Was this a good move for facebook?

What Microsoft offered was the Microsoft Passport->.NET Passport->Windows Live ID. The difference being that under their plan, Microsoft was the only provider. Big difference.

OpenID allows people to use whichever services they want as their OpenID providers.

I think there is a fundamental problem with OpenID, which I describe here: http://blog.blinker.net/2009/01/09/a-big-problem-with-openid...

Also, most of the sites that I used it for recently still required me to enter an extra password. So what's the point? If that keeps going on, I will just give up using OpenID.

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