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The Silent Reader
If I know you and you have a blog, chances are I have already read your blog at some point in the past. During lunch time when at the office, I often visit blogs that express the owner’s intellectual thoughts… that includes his/her complaints, written-on-the-spot poems, pictures, ideologies, and so on.
Most of the time I don’t leave comments. Not because I’m afraid that my opinion will be criticized or toasted, but more often because it requires me to log in (I know, stupid reason, but these days I can’t survive without a password manager).
So when I heard about Facebook opening their authentication function to external apps, I’m happy. While there has been a standardized login framework (since 2005, I think?), adoption by mainstream users has been somewhat slow IMO (really, how many of you log on to Facebook using an OpenID? Or have you heard about it at all?). On the other hand, Facebook Connect will probably become more successful rapidly than OpenID, since it builds on a concept that is already familiar.
Anyway, just a thought.
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