Social network site Facebook has joined the
OpenID foundation, the service
that provides a single user ID across the internet.
Luke Shepard, a member of Facebook's Platform and Connect teams
has joined the OpenID sustaining board. Other corporate members
include Google, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, VeriSign and Yahoo.
As the OpenID community entered 2009 two key topics were the
focal points on the road to mainstream adoption: user experience
and security.
Facebook said it would run a design summit next week at in Palo
Alto which follows a similar summit on user experience hosted by
Yahoo last year. The summit is expected to include designers from
Facebook, the DiSo,, a
project to make social networking more distributed, Google,
JanRain, MySpace,
Six Apart, and Yahoo.
