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- n8w
I am creating a new site where I need to identify users .. but I want to avoid giving users one more user/name password to remember .. I am considering FACEBOOK CONNECT, OPEN SOCIAL, etc .. any suggestions?
- graham4140
openid
- utopian0
gogle analytics
- schjetne0
OpenID is a really bad idea, considering hardly anyone's got it.
Facebook Connect is the way to go. Everyone's got a Facebook account.
- yeah, why not advertise facebook for free?caput58
- eh?erikjonsson
- You don't really advertise when everyone already knows what it is and uses it actively.schjetne
- so, what you're proposing that whoever doesn't have an fb account should join to use his site.caput58
- and OMG if they don't have it :)caput58
- ********0
openid is a good idea on paper, but the implementation of it is awful.
You go to openid.net, and you can not get an 'open id' from it which just confuses every non-tech person who tries to use it.
- graham4140
i thought open id was like...
you get a special key, upload some files that talk with the actual open id servers.
then your users either sign in with their aim or whatever and its authenticated when u make the call which goes to their server.
- erikjonsson0
id go with facebook connect + 1 or 2 alternatives that is up and coming so you keep the frontline perspective. like open social or whatever.
- graham4140
yea i cant really speak for the fb conn or the google one because i deleted my fb and myspace accounts to focus but i find those toolbars a little troublesome. I dont know if that has anything to do with what were talking about but any 3rd party deal sorta turns me off or slows the site down somehow.
but im not hating or anything i am sure you'll come up with a sound solution
- ********0
Facebook will be dead by this time next year so I'd have a backup plan
