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For a look at what an integrated Facebook and OpenID user experience can be like in production, check out the following websites:

http://uservoice.com/session/new
https://www.mixx.com/login?return=http%3A%2F%2F...
http://www.kalydo.com/#openid
http://www.interscope.com/

If you'd like to just benefit from allowing new visitors to register and login using an existing account from AOL, Google, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo or any OpenID account, check out RPX (http://rpxnow.com). You can see it in action at http://www.interscope.com or http://www.uservoice.com and a summary of the data you'll be able to get from the various providers at http://blog.janrain.com/2008/12/rpx-addresses-u...

Following up on Adam Ostrow's comments, you can improve the OpenID login experience with ID Selector (www.idselector.com). With this universal login widget, the user only has to select their OpenID provider from a picklist, enter their account name (not the full OpenID URL), and login.

The ID Selector remembers user preferences, thereby providing "single click login" on return visits. The user doesn't have to type in anything.

Additionally, the ID Selector remembers your preferences across sites so that you get single click login across all websites using it. There's a list of some sites using ID Selector at https://www.idselector.com/site/enabled

Another option for making it easier to login to an OpenID-enabled site is an OpenID Selector widget called ID Selector (www.idselector.com). Pretty easy to install (5 mins or less) and very intuitive for users.

Hi Todd,

Thanks for the kind words. We created the ID Selector for just the reason you've suggested. Have you looked at OpenID-enabling your site? Let us know if we can help, we have open source libraries http://openidenabled.com/ and there's a good tutorial by Joseph Smarr of Plaxo on how to implement it at http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe. Once you're up on OpenID, implementing the ID Selector should only take a couple of minutes.

Cheers, Brian