Talking about how comparing OAuth et al to Facebook Connect is an entirely broken analogy and that the ball sits in the court of product makers like Yahoo! and Google to stand up to Facebook, not the OAuth and OpenID communities that just build the foundations of an open web.

In which I analyse Facebook Connect’s UI, bash it a bit, and then steal the best bit and apply it to OpenID and OAuth applications. Pictures are provided.

Facebook is everyone’s least hated under-one-roof social networking monster. It’s aesthetically neutral, perhaps even pretty. It’s open with feeds and iCal subscriptions and least evil of all, it allows you to specify an external source for your Facebook blog.

This is great step out from other social nets like MySpace, which expect you to remain within [...]