Facebook now part of OpenID board Social networking giant Facebook has announced that they are now joining the OpenID board. OpenID is already supported by several other industry giants including MySpace, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and IBM. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s director of engineering spoke about this new development: “It is our hope that we can take the success of Facebook Connect and work together with the community to build easy-to-use, safe, open and secure distributed identity frameworks for use across the Web.” Facebook...