Simon Willison’s Weblog

Integrating Facebook Connect with Django in 15 minutes. Django authentication middleware that calls the Facebook REST API using a cookie set by Facebook Connect and checks if that person is your Facebook friend. Despite most of the magic happening on the server you still need Facebook’s JavaScript to set that cookie in the first place.

# 17th December 2008, 1:18 pm / cookies, django, facebook, facebookconnect, javascript, middleware

Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research. Extremely valuable research, conducted with a group of typical Yahoo! users. OpenIDs usability remains bad, and if we don’t get it right soon something centralised like Facebook Connect will take over and the Web will stop being open.

# 14th October 2008, 4:59 pm / facebook, facebookconnect, openid, research, usability, yahoo