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Facebook Joins OpenID Foundation Board
Inside Facebook —
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s VP of Engineering, announced today that Facebook has joined the OpenID Foundation’s board as a sustaining corporate member.
The move is a big bolster to the OpenID movement, which hopes to create an “open, decentralized, free” framework for user identity across the web. The OpenID Foundation was formed in 2007 to help promote the OpenID technologies and community, and is currently governed by 7 community elected board members and 7 corporate board members. Facebook engineer Luke Shephard, a “huge internal advocate for OpenID,” will ...
Facebook steps into OpenID Foundation
Webware.com —
... Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation and will host an OpenID Design Summit later this month, according to a post on the social network's developer blog. ...
Facebook steps into OpenID Foundation
The Social —
... Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation and will host an OpenID Design Summit later this month, according to a post on the social network's developer blog. ...
Facebook joins OpenID board; How will it Connect?
Between the Lines —
February 5th, 2009 Facebook joins OpenID board; How will it Connect? Posted by Larry Dignan @ 5:32 pm Categories: Facebook , General , Social networking , Web Technology Tags: Facebook , Board , Corporate Governance , Business Operations , Corporate Law , Larry Dignan Facebook has joined the OpenID Foundation’s board to join companies like Google, IBM and Yahoo. The big question is how OpenID and Facebook Connect, a rival identity format, will be tied together. Details thus far are vague. Facebook’s Mike Schropfer writes : We’re happy to announce today ...
Facebook Joins Board of OpenID
AppScout —
... "It is our hope that we can take the success of Facebook Connect and work together with the community to build easy-to-use, safe, open and secure distributed identity frameworks for use across the Web," Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's director of engineering, wrote in a blog post. ...
Facebook's "next steps in openness" raises questions
(Obsolete Feed) —
Facebok has made massive strides in the past year towards its goal of becoming not just the dominant social network worldwide, but also a major provider of universal identity on the web (although its VP of Engineering tries to argue otherwise). Facebook Connect, launched just two months ago, has quickly gained support from thousands of partners, but mounting criticism of the company's "walled garden" approach has caused it to make an announcement that can only be described as perplexing.
On Facebook's official Developer Blog, a post titled "Next Steps in Openness" announces the ...
Breaking down the walled garden: Some thoughts on Facebook embracing OpenID and opening up status update APIs
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
Facebook made two interesting announcements this week in the area of making their
platform more open. The first announcement was made by Mike Shroepfer in the developer
blog post Next
Steps in Openness where he writes
Enabling social information to flow through the Web is one of the core goals of
Facebook. In the two months since Facebook
Connect became generally available, over 4,000 sites and desktop applications
have gone live with the service. Users can now log into sites across the Web using
their Facebook account, bring their identity and friends with them, and share information ...
Five Ways Facebook May Advance the OpenID Movement
Inside Facebook —
This is a guest post by John McCrea, VP of Marketing at Plaxo. You can find John on his blog and his weekly video podcast on the opening up of the social web.
For the past two years, I’ve been a vocal advocate of OpenID and a big believer that OpenID and the rest of the “open stack” will bring about a Social Web characterized by interoperability, data portability, and user control. As a self-appointed evangelist for OpenID, I have often blogged on the topic or been quoted in articles covering the progress of OpenID. So when Facebook announced on Thursday that they were joining the ...
Should the Government Control Internet Standards?
ReadWriteWeb —
... as the two systems were not interoperable. Although Facebook formalized its support of the OpenID Foundation in February this year by officially joining the board, only time will tell whether this will be beneficial to the general Internet community. ...
Facebook Makes It Easier For Developers To Play With Its Data
paidContent —
... , Facebook will likely make it easier to access its data through an "open technology standard" like OAuth (the network joined the board behind OpenID, another service that makes it easier for internet users to maintain a single profile and login across multiple sites, in February). Right now, developers need to use Facebook's designated API or work through Facebook Connect to build apps. ...
Facebook Links User Accounts with Gmail
WebProNews Feed —
Yesterday, Facebook went live as an OpenID relying party. This makes Facebook the largest one to date.
"This is the first iteration of the implementation," a Facebook spokesperson tells WebProNews. "To start, new users can now register for Facebook with their Gmail accounts, and existing users can link their Facebook accounts with any OpenID provider to connect with friends and eliminate the need for multiple sign-ins."
Once a user links their account with a Gmail address or an OpenID URL, logs in to that account, then goes to Facebook, that user will already be logged in to Facebook. ...
