hello

AWESOME! just want i was waiting for :)

thanks!!!

Gee.. a little behind the times are we guys. Only if you've guys jumped on the update or die band wagon sooner, maybe facebook and ning wouldn't of made leaps and bounds past you guys.

WhAt

Master Den Zuko - Facebook doesn't give you an OpenID.  

OpenID is the best thing in the world i cant wait till Flock does OpenID and myspace support

When will OpenID be implemented, guys?

John

Is this just myspace becoming yet another openid provider (long after AOL, yahoo, and most of the other sites that myspace users use) or is myspace going to do something useful and become an openid consumer?

I'm willing to bet everything I own that it's the former. But it would be nice to use my SSL-based openid provider to log in to myspace, just so i won't have to care about anyone stealing my myspace password.

From what I've read, myspace is just going to become another provider, and that's a step in the right general direction, but not directly towards the goal. What users need is one common identification to access all of their information, not seven different IDs to access one site.

does this mean we can use javascript...haha

the war is not over

what war? i assume you are referring to the 'war' between openid and facebook. however, what i see with OpenID is that there are actually a blend of technologies in that arena, including Google Gadgets, OpenSocial, FriendConnect, Open-ID / OAuth. And on the other side, we have FBML and FQL (Facebook).

OpenSocial is History's first Social Operating System. What's more is that we know Facebook has to invest $150 million in capital expenditures for servers, hardware etc., and is expected to grow from 450 people to over 1,000 employees in 2008 (much of which are network engineers to support the bloated infrastructure). However, from google's side we see MASSIVE scalability.

That's why Google will win, because of App Engine. The App Engine technology is just in it's infancy, but will soon start to develop and offering web services comparable to amazon (FPS, Dev Pay, SQS, SimpleDB, etc). The two key offerings needing to be developed are the equivalent to Dev Pay, but also SQS which will allow for loosely bound, reliable workflows.

I see the merging of several technologies

I forgot to mention, Facebook would have to invest more than 10 times into their server infrastructure to even start to catch pace with Google.

Also, there are over 10,000 Internet sites that accept OpenID and thousands of web services that authenticate via OAuth. Altogether, there are more than 500 million OpenID users on the Internet.

Compare that with Facebook's 90 million members.

Let's say we admit that facebook could compete with google, how could they compete with the Internet? I think facebook has value, but I don't think they can compete effectively. Essentially, in the end facebook will become nothing more than any other social portal, and the entire web, with friendconnect, will become increasingly social.

Hi all,

Any dates, plan or roadmap on this MySpace OpenID provider implementation ?

I want to use it for my Web site users ! :)

Thanks

Victor

Wow... yeah... just what I need... ANOTHER OpenID.  I thought the whole purpose was to cut down on usernames and passwords.  While it's done that - it's just replaced them with OpenIDs.  And on top of that - they're starting to run over each other.  For example, I can go to Mapquest (not that I do) and login with my myopenid.com (which is linked with my Cardspace) OR my aol OpenID.

It's just getting out of hand.  That's great everyone is starting to accept OpenID.  But there needs to be at least as much focus on accepting OpenID's and linking current OpenID's as there is on providing them.

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