I really dislike this title. It seems like ever since Google said they would 'Do no evil', people have been calling any company that does anything they don't like evil. Facebook isn't evil, they are a company just like any other. As much as some people hate this open graph idea (and I REALLY hate it), it does not make the company evil.<p>Mark Zuckerberg on the other hand is evil. :D
The real issue is this concept of putting a frame in a website that you click on and then automatically does something with your credentials on another site. It really should be handled by a browser toolbar plugin (for those who want this obnoxious feature) not by something that sites can embed to use your credentials as they see fit. It's fundamentally insecure.
This is some quality tabloid journalism from Techcrunch.<p>They have lined up some open advocates who they can trot out to call "Facebook" evil, then ride the controversy, while suggesting Facebook will "win" because of their "500 million users".<p>Whatever you think of Facebook's currently strategy all the people quoted in the article work at huge companies, Kevin at BT and Chris is at Google. Both of those companies, along with many other (like mine, Yahoo!) have huge user populations and they aren't going to sit idle while Facebook attempts to dominate.<p>At the end of the day this will be decided by how much Facebook users like or dislike the new features, not by anything else.