XAuth, An Alternative to Facebook Connect to Let You... Erm... Connect

One insidious way Facebook's worming its way into the social net structures of large parts of the Web is via its "easy login" system Facebook Connect. Now there's some competition from newcomers XAuth, if only they believed in themselves.

According to ReadWriteWeb, there's going to be an announcement about XAuth sometime today from its consortium of backers/developers--a group that includes Google, Yahoo, Meebo, and MySpace. RRW calls it "Facebook Connect but for every other social network...