Facebook Connect: The next big thing?

Techcrunch released an article today on Facebook Connect. Short description:

It will allow users to “connect” their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any website. Third party websites will be able to implement and offer more features of the Facebook Platform off of Facebook – the same features available to third party applications today on Facebook.

This is huge news, I can’t even start to imagine how huge. If Facebook plays their hand of cards right, they well very well take the web to its next stage, and become the social and identity backbone of the internet. Yes you read that right. They will hold your data, they will hold your picture, they will hold your profile and all other websites will only connect and fetch your profile data off Facebook. Wow. I mean, WOW!

So I guess OpenID will take a huge hit now, maybe? It all depends as I said on how well Facebook plays their hand of cards and on the willingness of users to adopt Facebook Connect.

Personally, I am tired of registering and haven a gazillion accounts all over the net. But at the same time this worsens privacy issues.