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?