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And those "other new standards" would be?
What would happen to someone if they got kicked from facebook for breaching terms and conditions, and they relied on that user details to log-in to other sites? Stuck then I guess.
FaceBook is doing anything to get market share currently IMO. We'll see what happens...
OpenID combined with OAuth, PortableContacts and OpenSocial APIs are the Open Stack foundations that Friend Connect is built atop.
The whole reason why webmasters would be interested in federated identity systems is because they could get a higher participation rate then they would get from a normal log-in process.
With FB Connect, you can tell people what to do, they do it, then they are logged in. With OpenID you end up giving people so many choices that they'll be overwhelmed. By the time they figure out what to do, they'll have forgotten that they wanted to participate on your site.
OpenID has been a dangerous diversion for companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft -- all of them have had the opportunity to build a usable system that users can actually use, but they blew it.
I can see OpenID having a place in the "enterprise" market where employees at Company A can log into services provided by Company B using company A's infrastructure. However, GFC and other systems based on OpenID are going to be quickly eclipsed by Facebook connect unless they turn 180 degrees and realize that OpenID provides a user interface that most users would find irrelevant and oppressive.