Facebook Finally Gets OpenID this will help you to login without creating account on facebook

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Finally Facebook shift to OpenID.Open Id is a technical term, this
mean that if you have gmail account then u just come over facebook and
give your gmail account id and password then this will login to
facebook.Its really amazing feature many of the site already sifted to
openId.While I like OpenID as a concept, I think it has been a bit too
technical for the average user. Not that it is very hard to understand
or use, but rather clunky and more of a hassle than something that
truly helps out. There just wasn't incentive enough for the user.

No more, potentially at least, because now Facebook is an OpenID
relying partner. That means that you can use your Gmail account to
login to Facebook, once you have authenticated it, and that in turn
means that when you're logged in to Facebook you're also logged in to
every site using Facebook Connect.

That could be your blog.

First things first, link your Facebook account to an OpenID provider.
Not all will let you login automatically, and the Inside Facebook
interview with Luke Shepard is focusing on Google accounts. And sure,
like so many others, I log onto Gmail every morning, and now that will
go for Facebook as well. At least, it will after I've visited my
Account Settings and added Google as a linked service.

Shephard says:

We're a major identity provider with the Facebook Platform and
Facebook Connect. We've been trying to do a good job on this for apps,
and this is a good chance for us to eat our own dogfood with identity
and learn what we can do better for apps in the future.

There are very few sites that support the background automatic
login in OpenID, but this is a core part of the Facebook Connect
experience. Others havent done this yet because it's pretty difficult
technically. When designing our OpenID implementation, I was drawing
on several Facebook engineers here to learn from how we did various
things with Connect. It's also still rapidly evolving.

Shepard also says that both Yahoo and Microsoft are on the verge of
releasing their own solutions so that they too will work with Facebook
and keep you logged in.

This is potentially great news for OpenID. Facebook is such a strong
brand, and the fact that they're getting behind it says a lot. Of
course, their intentions were known, but this is the proof needed. Now
let's hope they can push this and make something huge out of the
somewhat unholy trio of Facebook Connect, OpenID providers, and their
massive userbase.

Sunday Morning SEO: What is Anchor Text and Why is It Important?

In a survey of 37 search experts, the 2nd highest SEO factor was the
anchor text of links from other sites. However, many webmasters who
want to rank better on the search engines don't know what anchor text
is. Fortunately, anchor text is an easy concept to understand. In
this post and next week's post, we'll look at what anchor text is and
how to use it well for your blog.

Simply put, anchor text is the text in a link. Here's an example.
The anchor text of the following link is the best blog in the world:

the best blog in the world

Anchor text is important because search engines use it in their
algorithms to determine their rankings. Here's how it works. Search
engines are constantly checking the anchor text of your site. Each
time you get a link from another site, the search engines will note
the anchor text of that link. With each instance a word or phrase
shows up in your anchor text, your chances improve for increasing your
ranking for that word or phrase.

For example, let's say you have a blog about movie reviews. If you
build a lot of links with the words movie and reviews in your anchor
text, you'll improve your chances of increasing your ranking for movie
reviews.