At the Facebook f8 conference in San Francisco (like in 8 hours of non-stop hack-a-thon), CEO Mark Zuckenberg gave more details on the start-up Connect platform, a direct rival to the OpenID standard already adopted by Google, Yahoo...

In a nutshell, you will be to use your Facebook account information to login to Web sites like CBS.com, CitySearch, CNET, Disney, Digg, Evite, Hulu, Plaxo, Seesmic, Six Apart or Twitter.

And for me this is the one most important announcement made here at f8 because as Facebook grows its user base it'll be hard for small but also some very large sites (see above) to ignore that community.

So from being "just" this cool Web social layer, Facebook is becoming the center of the online universe. And that's huge, no?

I'll be posting soon videos and pictures done at the show.