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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 part of your registration and authentication mechanism.

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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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Gluecon Is Less Than A Month Away (And Special 20% Bonus Code)

Feld Thoughts

The sessions that are assembled for Gluecon are done the right way — namely, there are no panels (zero), and they’re technically deep. Sessions like: “The Badass Beyond Hadoop: Percolator, Dremmel, Pregel” “Why MongoDB + Node.js

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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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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. also supports oauth, so you can log in with your twitter credentials. I hope people will use this to recruit and share jobs/candidates in their own networks, letting retweets etc.