Comments on: Facebook : “Push To Open” http://www.harshadoak.com/2009/03/internet/facebook-push-to-open.html Harshad Oak's blog about India, Pune, Politics, Religion, Society, Books, Technology... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://www.harshadoak.com/2009/03/internet/facebook-push-to-open.html/comment-page-1/#comment-23248 Michael Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:05:02 +0000 http://www.harshadoak.com/?p=299#comment-23248 Interesting post, Harshad. The conventional wisdom is that Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect have or will monopolize the "market" for third party identity login & authentication. But JanRain has a SaaS solution called RPX which allows website visitors to login to a site using their Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, AOL and Windows LiveID accounts. When the choice of identity providers is expanded, the result is increased registration rates on relying party sites, because a lot of users don't necessarily want to login to a site using their Facebook account. I think you make a good point about people in the software world valuing openness ... When you examine OpenID, look at how Microsoft's .NET passport idea never gained widespread market adoption. Many savvy web users possess a natural aversion to overly-proprietary companies. Interesting post, Harshad. The conventional wisdom is that Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect have or will monopolize the “market” for third party identity login & authentication. But JanRain has a SaaS solution called RPX which allows website visitors to login to a site using their Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, AOL and Windows LiveID accounts. When the choice of identity providers is expanded, the result is increased registration rates on relying party sites, because a lot of users don’t necessarily want to login to a site using their Facebook account.

I think you make a good point about people in the software world valuing openness … When you examine OpenID, look at how Microsoft’s .NET passport idea never gained widespread market adoption. Many savvy web users possess a natural aversion to overly-proprietary companies.

]]> By: Michael http://www.harshadoak.com/2009/03/internet/facebook-push-to-open.html/comment-page-1/#comment-40523 Michael Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:05:00 +0000 http://www.harshadoak.com/?p=299#comment-40523 Interesting post, Harshad. The conventional wisdom is that Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect have or will monopolize the "market" for third party identity login & authentication. But JanRain has a SaaS solution called RPX which allows website visitors to login to a site using their Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, AOL and Windows LiveID accounts. When the choice of identity providers is expanded, the result is increased registration rates on relying party sites, because a lot of users don't necessarily want to login to a site using their Facebook account. I think you make a good point about people in the software world valuing openness ... When you examine OpenID, look at how Microsoft's .NET passport idea never gained widespread market adoption. Many savvy web users possess a natural aversion to overly-proprietary companies. Interesting post, Harshad. The conventional wisdom is that Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect have or will monopolize the “market” for third party identity login & authentication. But JanRain has a SaaS solution called RPX which allows website visitors to login to a site using their Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, AOL and Windows LiveID accounts. When the choice of identity providers is expanded, the result is increased registration rates on relying party sites, because a lot of users don’t necessarily want to login to a site using their Facebook account.

I think you make a good point about people in the software world valuing openness … When you examine OpenID, look at how Microsoft’s .NET passport idea never gained widespread market adoption. Many savvy web users possess a natural aversion to overly-proprietary companies.

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