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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Email - are you sending out emails periodically?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Email - are you sending out emails periodically?

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Registration Form Design with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Authentication

SoCal CTO

Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password). They tell you the other option is to provide your email and password.

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Is LinkedIn Intro Good, Bad, or Impossible?

Feld Thoughts

By this point I had sent emails to several of my friends who were experts in the email / SMTP / IMAP / security ecosystem and was already getting feedback that generally trended negative. Scott co-founded Postini and a bunch of email stuff at Google after Google acquired Postini in 2007. Details on their approach here ([link].

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When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

SoCal CTO

In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Email Address Almost every startup wants and needs email as a means of notifying users.

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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

www.smashingmagazine.com

Ask for a User Name After The User Has Signed Up Sign-up forms typically ask users to create a name that is unique to the website. However, coming up with a unique user name that’s not taken could take trial and error and, thus, time. Give users the option to log in with their email address as well as a user name.

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A new way to recruit for (and find) startup jobs

Startup Lessons Learned

lets you post a description of a job without having to reveal the name of the company who is offering it, or the contact information of the hiring manager. The actual exchange of information occurs in private, in email. Just write a few words about them, set their email address as the private recipient, and tweet about it.