(2009-04-07) Levin Facebook Selfish Api

Adina Levin sees Facebook Connect as a loser deal for sites that really want an engaged user base. The problem is that when sites use Facebook Connect, they have minimal connection to their user base. An an application or community site wants to create the policies whereby the site communicates to the Community, and the community talks to each other. With Facebook Connect, those rules belong to FaceBook. What's worse, the member database is critical for a site to make money through ads, sales, donations, or services. With FB Connect, all your member database are belong to them. It smells that way to me, too.