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ddphoneon Poll: How many Facebook accounts do you have?

1 and it's fake. I'm not sure what you'll get out of this poll. Most people will create an account simply because some site requires it and then completely forget about it.

ddphoneon Facebook's Internet identity monopoly

Check out how stackexchange handles the experience and then we'll see who's absurd nub.

ddphoneon Facebook's Internet identity monopoly

1) It provides access to real identity as much as a fake e-mail account. 2) There are plenty of easy to use pluggable OpenID widgets. 3) Not true. The content is just drowned out by all the other noise generated by all the other publishers clamoring for attention. 4) 5 items from my Amazon shopping list provide more insight than my entire facebook profile.

Facebook Connect is no better than the open alternatives to identity management but as usual the open alternatives have a PR problem because the user experience is just as seamless but somehow publishers are convinced that flooding the user's facebook stream is going to bring them traffic.