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David Recordon of Facebook has an interesting post titled Why f8 was good for the open web where he talks about how some of Facebook’s announcements at their recent F8 conference increase the openness of the Web. He calls out the following four items as the key benefits to the web as a whole from the F8 announcements

usqu’à présent, Facebook était un « réseau social » qui permettait à ses utilisateurs de se relier entre eux en « devenant amis » pour ainsi partager et publier des informations, des liens et des contenus. [...] Mais voilà, cette semaine, facebook a annoncé ses plans et les changements qu’ils venaient de mettre en place. Et là, la balance a totalement basculé.

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to enable any web page to have the same functionality as a Facebook Page.

If you're not already aware, this week ReadWriteWeb wrote up a post pondering about how Facebook wishes to be the "One True Login." The idea behind the post is that recent moves seem to suggest that Facebook wishes to become a starting point for most users to the rest of the web. Google quickly ranked the post in its "News" results at the top of the results page for "Facebook login." People began clicking on the post thinking they could login to Facebook from there. When they couldn't, they began leaving comments on the post expressing frustration and wanting to know how they could just log in!