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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? Mahalo offers you the choice of sign-up / registration via a host of social networks (powered by JanRain). As a user, this feels a little strange.

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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. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? What special data, content, APIs, etc. are you going to leverage?

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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. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? What special data, content, APIs, etc. are you going to leverage?

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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. That means that I’ll get a name, picture, some demographic data and permissions on the social site.

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OpenID, One Year Later - Blog – Stack Overflow

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To their credit, they do offer proper named OpenIDs now in the form of Google Profile OpenIDs , but this does nothing to fix the status quo for GMail OpenIDs. That’s a major bummer for site networks like us with multiple domains. I think anybody who has their own domain name should go for this option.