Posts Tagged OpenID

This is what I’ve been waiting for for a long time. From now on, we will be able to sign into any website which supports OpenID with our Facebook accounts. I simply love the concept of OpenID, and have been using it for some time now by signing in with my Google account at any site which supports the standard. Of course, with virtually everyone and their dog using Facebook, this will become a much more widely used function of websites (not many sites supported it before because very few people have OpenID compatible accounts). We should see OpenID spread like wildfire from now on, as it will drastically increase the conversion rate from site visitors to actual members. It’s much simpler to just click “Login with my Facebook account details”, rather than filling out another form and picking another password.

More information on Facebook’s blog: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=246