Lesson for Open Source: Make it Look Good

Yesterday John McCrea posted on TechcrunchIT about his experience when attending the User Experience Summit for OpenID. Apparently a large portion of the event turned into a conversation about Facebook’s experience with developing Connect. One takeaway was that Facebook Connect is much further along then OpenID and any of the platforms providing a single login.

While OpenID is pretty well defined, all implementations of the service have been overly complex, in turn confusing users. On the other hand, Facebook Connect is extremely simple and intuitive for users.

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