Facebook Connect, Scary but Good

This article falls in the line with the phrase we commonly hear in class, the technology is so good it is scary, but also amazing. Facebook Connect is a centralized identity service. The idea is to launch a one time log on in order to make a universal network of trusted sites that can share the user’s information. You simply log on to Facebook and then jump to any of these sites, for example cnte.com, and the site will have you already logged on to the new site. This forms a network of site where a user doesn’t have to worry about identity theft. The one centralized identity will only projected not housed on all the different servers. I especially like the idea because I have so many user names and passwords I almost forget one a day because there are so many. If we can use one to leapfrog to additional sites I am all for it. In addition, when users utilize this service they are opened up to all the sites on the network for which they may not have been familiar with previously.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10110382-2.html?tag=mncol;txt