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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. What special data, content, APIs, etc. are you going to leverage? What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data? What’s the state of those systems?

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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? However, if you sign-up with twitter, it puts a check mark next to it and leaves you on this page still requiring you to enter your name and email address.

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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. What special data, content, APIs, etc. are you going to leverage? What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data? What’s the state of those systems?

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Why Twitter’s API Changes Screws Startups – And Twitter

YoungUpstarts

As you may know, Twitter changes the rules for oAuth requests as well as a few minor things for apps using Twitter’s services. Now one of the things that makes my startup, Twythm ( [link] ), different is that you don’t have to authorize with Twitter using oAuth. Note: this is different from oAuth. But do what we did.

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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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Is LinkedIn Intro Good, Bad, or Impossible?

Feld Thoughts

You need to know the host names of your service, the ports, encryption values, etc. And since it uses OAuth to log in, it doesn’t even need to ask for your credentials. Intro uses an IMAP proxy server to fetch your mail where they modify it, then deliver it to your iPhone. Classic Man in the Middle. It isn’t easy.

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