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Your loss.

Using FB for SSO increases conversion rates, and takes a whole bunch of burden off app developers. It's a big win for everyone, including you, who may wish to get more cool apps per total programmer-hour in the world.

Likewise.

Frankly, that describes the whole Node Knockout this year. It was pretty disappointing.

That's kind of the whole point of the app.

Ok... but I won't log into these kind of FB-connected sites before seeing a demo of what it does and what it will do w/ my FB account & contacts. Needs a video or a sandbox or something.

It can't do anything with your facebook account or contacts. It just gets your friends list as a list of facebook user ids, and your name and other public info.

EDIT: Despite the down votes, my statement is still perfectly true.

It actually doesn't get anything but public info, which you can see in the permissions request page on Facebook. All it does is grab your name, profile photo and url. It doesn't even store anything in a database--it's all in-memory at the moment.