Habbo Hotel adds social login feature
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Social entertainment company Sulake, has chosen Janrain, provider of user management solutions for the social web, to help improve the user registration experience on its social networking site Habbo Hotel.
Social Login Solves A Critical Marketing Challenge
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It’s no secret that marketers are under increasing pressure to solve a critical marketing challenge–creating authentic, personalized, and meaningful engagement with online customers to help fill the lead-gen funnel and close sales.
How to Leverage Social Login to Boost User Engagement
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Think about a time when you’ve been really engaged in a social setting. What made that experience stand out? Most likely, whatever you were doing had personal meaning. The people you were sharing the experience with probably held a common interest or passion, knew some, or a lot, of your personal characteristics and perhaps had [...]
Janrain Integrates with Amazon Login
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Amazon has opened up its login widget for app developers, mobile apps, individual websites and clients of Janrain to use. Janrain, a provider of user management solutions for the social web, announced the integration today (Thursday).
Amazon Opens Up Log-in Feature for Use Around the Web
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Amazon has opened up its login widget for app developers, mobile apps, individual websites and clients of the identity management service Janrain to use.
Janrain Announces Integration With “Login With Amazon,” Amazon’s New Social Login For Ecommerce
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Today, Janrain announced it is among the first companies to support Amazon’s new third-party login service, Login with Amazon. Janrain’s ecommerce, consumer brand and other sites with registration processes will now be able to add Login to Amazon authorization to their sites.
Janrain partners with Amazon for login features
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Add another option to the social login space. Today Janrain and Amazon are partnering to allow Amazon users to use their logins on other online retailers’ websites. Social login has been shown to increase consumers’ sentiment for retailers because they don’t have to create different profiles for every store they shop.
Janrain Announces ‘Login With Amazon’ Integration
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Janrain, a leading provider of user management solutions for the social web, today announced integration with Login with Amazon. Online retailers, consumer brands and others using the Janrain User Management Platform (JUMP) can now make it fast and easy for customers to register, sign in and check-out using their existing Amazon account, turning guest checkout visitors [...]
Gartner Report Highlights ‘Cool’ Social Marketing Shops
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Portland, Oregon based Janrain addresses the issue of “password fatigue” for social users, since such weariness can increase abandonment rates. The agency has been aleader in the use of the OpenID protocol, so that users can register at any participating site or app with their existing social identity from nearly three dozen sites or services, including Facebook, [...]
Amazon offers its login service to more e-retailers
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Social media login technology vendor Janrain says its clients can employ Login with Amazon on their sites for consumers who want to sign into site with Amazon credentials. “Amazon is considered one of the most reputable companies in the U.S. and personifies trust for online shoppers,” said Larry Drebes, CEO of Janrain. “This [creates an] opportunity for [...]
What Is Identity Management and Who Uses It?
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Last month, Google was able to expand its social log-in dramatically by simply integrating its log-in feature with identity management provider, Janrain.
Twobo Technologies Becomes First Janrain Authorized Reseller in the Nordics
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Janrain, the leading provider of user management solutions for the social web, and Twobo Technologies, a leading innovator of secure social media solutions, today announced that the two have entered into an agreement allowing Twobo Technologies to resell Janrain’s portfolio of social identity management software and services. The partnership represents an important step in Janrain’s [...]
PayPal Adds Mobile Support To Facebook Connect-Like Commerce Identity Login Technology
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With Log In With PayPal, instead of signing up with a specific retailer’s credentials on a site, you would sign up with your PayPal account which would include all of your financial, shipping and billing information, as well as your purchase history. PayPal says having an identity that ties with commerce (as opposed to social [...]
Infographic: Consumer battles – solving the social login switch off debacle
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Many consumers are turned off when confronted with social logins and registrations forms, meaning brands can miss out on social advocacy as a result. This infographic from Janrain looks at the issues surrounding online registration forms.
CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Dominates Social Logins — But Google Is Closing The Gap
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When users on the web are asked to log in to a site, they most often choose Facebook over Twitter, LinkedIn or Google rather than registering anew, according to data from Janrain, which tracks social logins.
VC investing tanks in Washington, overtaken by Oregon for first time since 1993
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I’ve been covering the venture capital beat for nearly 15 years in the Pacific Northwest, through good times and bad. And this marks the very first time I’ve seen this occur. Oregon overtook Washington in terms of venture capital investing during the first quarter.
Report: 46% Of Social Login Users Still Choose Facebook, But Google Is Quickly Gaining Ground
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Since Google launched its Google+ sign-insearlier this year, social logins have suddenly become a hot topic again. According to the latest data from social login provider Janrain, Facebook continues to be the most popular identity provider for social logins, but the social network is starting to lose some ground to Google.
Google Plus’ Popularity Growing in Social Login
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Facebook may still be the most popular social login for users signing into websites, but according to a recent report by social login provider Janrain, Google Plus is quickly gaining ground. The report found that Facebook dropped from the top choice for social login from 49% to 46% of people from Q4 to 2012 to Q1 [...]
Cool Vendors in Social Marketing, 2013
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The huge marketing opportunity created by the social Web is a delicate balance, because brand promotion and commerce are not always the drivers behind one’s social motivations. See how cool vendors in social marketing help digital marketers do it right.
Google+ login button launches across hundreds of partner sites
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Today, Google is announcing that American Idol, Universal Music Group, Fox Broadcasting company, and hundreds of other partners are doing Google+-flavored sign-ins. The service had around 10 partners at its launch; now, through middleman-like service providers including Gigya and Janrain, it’s expanding its reach by an order of magnitude and then some. Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/02/google-plus-login-button/#KKbCsTfijhhIkSyX.99
Google Gives Developers More Ways to Incorporate Google+
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Google has now announced support for social infrastructure platforms Janrain and Gigya, which many developers are already using in their sign-in systems.
Google+ Sign-In Rolls Out to NPR, ‘American Idol’
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Google has partnered with social infrastructure platform Janrain to bring the new Google+ Sign-In feature to popular brands.
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Google today announced a new partnership with social login providers Janrain and Gigyathat will bring its Google+ sign-ins to thousands of new sites. In February, Googlelaunched Google+ sign-ins to developers who can use it on the web and for their Android and iOS apps and starting today, all of the 400,000 sites that use Janrain to provide social logins and the 600,000 sites deployed across Gigya‘s [...]
Janrain Improves Online Marketing for WordPress, Disqus, and Others
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Janrain, the social web management solution, announced today new partnerships with Automattic, the creators of WordPress, Disqus, and Umbel. These organizations can now better leverage the power of social by using the Janrain User Management Platform (JUMP). Janrain provides sites with an easy way to engage their site visitors by allowing them to login or [...]
Automattic and Janrain add social login to WordPress.com VIP blogs
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Automattic, the company behind 63 million WordPress blogs, and Janrain announced a partnership this morning that will bring social login, profile storage, and user analytics to its premium blogging clients.
Portland loves its WordPress. And now, WordPress loves it right back. With a Janrain partnership.
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Well today, that Portland-WordPress bond got a little stronger when local startup Janrain announced a partnership with Automattic to implement social logins on WordPress.com, the hosted version of the Automattic platform.
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The future of social: Beyond Facebook and Twitter, with Jeremiah Owyang [Video]
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First up, here’s what happened when Altimeter Group‘s Jeremiah Owyang stopped by the Villa to discuss where ‘social’ is going. He was joined byEcho‘s Chris Saad, Janrain‘s Jamie Beckland and Chute‘s Ranvir Gujral.
Digital Marketing: Focus on Data Quality
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In addition to combatting faulty information, social log-ins can be an extremely valuable tool for marketers as well as customers. In fact, a Janrain survey shows, 65% of users are more likely to return to a website that automatically welcomes them through a social login.
Oregon Tech Awards name finalists
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The Technology Association of Oregon announced finalists this morning for the annual Oregon Technology Awards. Janrain was included in the nominees for the “Technology Company of the Year – Rising Star category.”
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Fresh off its $33 million funding round, Portland’s Janrain has named Sanjay Khare to the position of president.
Social Marketing Firm Janrain Appoints a President
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Sanjay Khare will help build the infrastructure needed to meet the company’s rapid revenue, customer and user-profile growth.
More stats to show social login gets customers through the door
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Social management solutions provider Janrain has published its Consumer Perceptions of Social Login study, revealing that, yep, the tool really does play a key role in getting punters on board with brands. ‘Password fatigue’ has long been heralded as a brand engagement serial killer, with 92% of respondents to the survey saying they’d left a website during [...]
Janrain hires a president, Sanjay Khare, from Vesta Corp.
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Portland social login company Janrain named a new president this morning, Sanjay Khare. Previously, Khare had been vice president and chief financial officer at Vesta Corp., a large — but low-profile — online payment processing company with offices in Tigard. Khare reports to Janrain chief executive Larry Drebes.
Janrain hires Vesta Corp.’s Sanjay Khare as president
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Janrain Inc. has hired former Vesta Corp. executive Sanjay Khare as president of the Portland-based social media login technology company.
Social login evolution gathers pace
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Janrain, the leading provider of user management solutions for the social web, has announced the results of a new Consumer Perceptions of Social Login study conducted by independent research consultancy Blue Research revealing that 87% of online consumers are familiar with social login and more than half (52%) already use it.
Web Login Through Social Sites Deemed Valuable
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According to a recently released report that Janrain commissioned to Blue Research, social login is understood, recognized and increasingly used by a majority of consumers. In addition, consumers better understand the value of sharing access to their social profiles when it results in a more personalized, relevant online experience.
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The Consumer Perceptions of Social Login Study, which was conducted by Blue Research and commissioned by Janrain, reveals that 98 percent of consumers claim that they have been mistargeted by marketers. However, this is typically not the fault of the marketer, because 83 percent of the survey respondents also admit to giving false or incomplete information when [...]
Consumers Seen Holding Favorable Attitudes to Social Login
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Consumers appear to be quite receptive to social logins – the ability to use an existing ID from a social network to login or register on a site – and welcome targeted products and promotions based on their social login profiles, per results from a Janrain study conducted by Blue Research. Awareness and use of social login [...]
Study: Password fatigue getting to shoppers
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While the online space has made it simpler for some shoppers to find some products, it’s also made shopping a bit more frustrating – at least for some. All those sites requiring site logins and passwords? According to new data out from Janrain password fatigue is on the rise among online shoppers.
Channel 4 debuts ‘social login’ to boost personalisation
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The technology, from Janrain, has been implemented as Channel4’s registration system, allowing viewers to register and log in on the Channel 4 website directly and using their preferred social media profiles, in exchange for a ‘more relevant and engaging user experience across all of its brands’.
Connected TV…the future for targeted advertising?
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Richard Parboo, UK Head of Publishing and Media at Janrain, outlines some key benefits to be reaped from the uptake of connected TV.
Reaching The Multi-Device Consumer
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A mobile strategy is now a given for most organisations. Yet despite investment in optimised sites and innovative apps; in creative ideas for exploiting evolving multi-device behaviour, the mobile reality has been disappointing to date with many brands struggling to achieve user engagement and significant revenue.
Roadrunner Records: Connecting With Music Fans
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Roadrunner Records is committed to promoting the heavy metal and rock bands on their label to get their music heard by a growing audience. As the music industry has been disrupted by the likes of Napster, iPod, Pandora and others, Roadrunner Records has evolved to leverage new technologies to support their artists, and give fans [...]
Janrain Raises $33 Million To Supercharge Social Media
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As a sign of Janrain’s success, it has announced a funding of $33 million. Investors include Millennium Technology Value Partners, Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures and Salesforce (NYSE:CRM).
Janrain Raises $33M Series C Round
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Social web user management platform provider Janrain has raised $33 million in a Series C round. New investor Millennium Technology Value Partners led the round. New investors Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures and salesforce.com also participated, along with existing investors Emergence Capital, RPM Ventures, DFJ Frontier and Anthem Venture Partners.
Janrain Raises $33M From Salesforce, And Others For Social Log-In Management Platform
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Janrain, a company that develops a social log-in management platform for developers, has raised $33 million in funding led by Millennium Technology Value Partners with Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures, Salesforce, as well as existing investors Emergence Capital, RPM Ventures, DFJ Frontier and Anthem Venture Partners participating. This brings the company’s total funding to $53 million.
Janrain confirms $33 million venture round, plans to accelerate growth
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Janrain is upping the ante. The downtown Portland company confirmed Monday morning that it has raised $33 million in new investment, among the biggest venture capital rounds ever for an Oregon Internet business.
Think BR: Reaching the multi-device Consumer
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Social login on mobile could open up new avenues for brands to connect with consumers, writes Russell Loarridge, European sales director, Janrain.
More shoppers log in to retail sites with Facebook credentials
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The majority of shoppers, 55%, who signed in to retail sites with social network or e-mail credentials used their Facebook names and passwords, according to a new report from Janrain, a provider of social media log-in technology for more than 365,000 web sites.
Consumers connect with brands through Facebook social logins
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While people actively log into their social media accounts to update their Facebook statuses or share content with connections within their circles via Google+, Americans use these platforms to engage with secondary sites, too. According to Janrain, 87 percent of people register for accounts on websites using existing social network or email identities. The process, also [...]
Google’s Share Of Social Logins Gaining On Facebook (But Not On Mobile)
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Facebook continues to be the dominant platform for websites that offer social logins, but Google is gaining ground in the latest report from Janrain.
Janrain, Neolane launches to offer more through social
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Two new solutions space promises to enhance the user experience while offering rich information to retail brands. The newest update to Janrain’s User Management solution collects rich data as the shopper fills out customized registration forms. And from Neolane, the ability to tap into Facebook data.
Rich data collection easier than ever with third gen Janrain
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Social web user management solutions provider Janrain has released to market the third generation of its industry leading user registration solution, already deployed by dozens of global brands including The Economist, Real.de, Life Champions and Channel 4 among others.
Janrain is quietly becoming the dominant force in registration management
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Portland companies, by and large, have a very difficult time tooting their own horns. “Oh no no. We’re not doing anything special. Don’t worry about us.” But sometimes, they get discovered for the actual potential they hold. And the site-of-record for the Bay Area, PandoDaily, just took a closer look at one of them: Janrain.
Janrain’s new registration management tools can hack the “getting to know you” game
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There is more thought and innovation that goes into the design of website registration experiences than the typical web surfer would ever realize. Each site visit has become a choreographed dance between visitor and designer. One side typically looks to get in and get out as quickly and privately as possible, while the other aims [...]
It’s Time You Considered Social Login
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At a high level, as digital strategists or online marketing professionals, we all have pretty similar goals: we want to drive traffic to our site, know who’s visiting, and encourage the actions that lead to sales. Pretty straightforward, right? The challenge is that at many steps in this journey we ask website visitors to do [...]
Digital ad spend vs time spent online
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Richard Parboo, UK Head of Publishing and Media at Janrain reflects on the benefits of social media on advertising and the challenges of measuring digital ad spend, particularly the internet on mobile devices.
Are You Fully Integrating Social and Your Website?
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As I’ve mentioned here before, your company is most likely not in the eyeballs business, you’re in the behavior business. Driving behavior in social media and your website is the fastest and most efficient path to marketing success.
L’Occitane exec: Social sign-in triggers 10pc lift in average order value
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A L’Occitane en Provence executive at the ad:tech New York 2012 conference last week said that through prompting users to socially sign-into its ecommerce site with their Facebook account, the brand is tailoring the experience to drive revenue.
Facebook Solidifies Hold On Social Sign-Ins
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Facebook hasn’t always been the most popular service offering social sign-ins to other sites. But it claimed the first-place mantle over a year ago and has continued to strengthen its hold across more categories of sites, according to user management platform provider Janrain.
Facebook Solidifies Hold on Social Sign-Ins
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Facebook hasn’t always been the most popular service offering social sign-ins to other sites. But it claimed the first-place mantle over a year ago and has continued to strengthen its hold across more categories of sites, according to user management platform provider Janrain.
Consumers pay more attention to their dentists than online adverts
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Adobe’s new report, ‘The State of Online Advertising’ has revealed some damning criticisms of online ads, perhaps most significantly that the medium lies right at the bottom of the pile when it comes to hooking consumer’s attention.
Janrain’s Integrated Social Log-in – Making Music 1988-Cassette-Deck Easy Again
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Today’s social music consumer gets content from all sorts of channels, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Spotify, to name the biggies. Janrain, a company out of beautiful Portland, Oregon, brings all those channels together, simplifying the user experience, and enhancing the type content that these fans receive.
Facebook Takes Majority Share of Social Logins; Gains At Google’s Expense
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Facebook was again the leading option in Q3 2012 for social logins, among online users who opted to use a social network identity to speed up registration on sites across the web,according to October 2012 data from Janrain. Facebook gained 6% points quarter-over-quarter to pass majority share for the first time, at 54%, extending its lead over second-place Google, [...]
Roundup: Partnerships, new releases available before 2012 holiday rush
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Meanwhile from Janrain comes an enhancement to their partner program. Through the new offering brands an focus on sales enhancements including technical/sales training, demand-gen offerings and team alignments. More than 30 tech partners are already on board.
CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Owns Identity On The Internet
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You know how you can sign-in to new mobile apps and Websites using your Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, or Yahoo IDs? Janrain, a provider of social login services, says that the most popular option last quarter continues to be Facebook, by an increasingly wider margin.
Janrain and Bazaarvoice partner for shopping social logins
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Bazaarvoice is to integrate its shopping reviews platform with the Janrain Engage social login and sharing tool.
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77% Of Users Prefer Social Logins To Registration Forms On Websites [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Did you know that almost nine in ten people (86 percent) may leave a website when asked to register or create an account? Lengthy forms and password fatigue are cited as the main issues, but there’s a simple solution: social logins. By allowing your visitors to connect via Facebook, Google and Twitter, you can dramatically increase [...]
Infographic – 86 Percent of Users May Leave a Website When Asked to Create an Account
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Convince & Convert sponsor and provider of social media sign-on technology Janrain has put together some research on user behavior around online web forms and registration pages. Have you considered the value that registration forms are creating (or taking away) from your website?
Forty percent of internet users would rather scrub the toilet than think up a new password
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User management solutions company Janrain has published its latest Social Login trend report, ‘The registration challenge’, which highlights some interesting – but not entirely unsurprising – results.
Janrain Unveils Frictionless Facebook Sharing Tool; TMZ Is A Customer
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Janrain, the leading provider of User Management solutions for the social web, today announced the availability of one-click sharing, the ability for consumers to contextually share activities from a brand’s website automatically or with a single click.
Janrain Rolls Out One-Click Sharing To Facebook As Alternative To Social Reader Apps
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User-management solutions provider Janrain tapped Facebook’s open graphtechnology to launch one-click sharing, allowing users to contextually share activities from brands’ websites, either automatically or via a single click.
Preference Centers: Rethink Rather Than Tweak
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Social sign-in changes everything about the opt-in process. Social sign-in, where subscribers log in via a social network of their choice, such as Facebook or LinkedIn instead of handing over an email address and other information, takes friction out of the opt-in process.
Facebook Hopes Third-Party Social Reader Will Help Users Avoid Sharing Too Much
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At one time, social readers – those spammy Facebook apps that broadcast everything you look at to everyone in your friend list – were a key component of the social network’s strategy to keep members in the walled garden. Only one problem: users hate auto-sharing. Now a third-party company says it may have solved Facebook’s [...]
Janrain releases one-click tool for social sharers
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Sharing across social networks has become a great way for brands to increase their profile. Unfortunately what was once simple for consumers to do has become more difficult as social networks have changed the way branded content shows up on social feeds. A new tool from Janrain could change that, offering a one click, frictionless [...]
Janrain Offers New Facebook Auto-Sharing Tool; Makes Reading TMZ Less Embarrassing
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“Frictionless sharing,” the Facebook Open Graph mechanism which some news sites and video apps have poorly used to boost their own virality at users’ expense, has been one of more controversial changes Facebook has made in recent months. Social news readers, for example, broadcast the articles you read to your Facebook friends, and led to [...]
Frictionless Sharing May Give Brands More Ad Options
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Frustration among Web users interested in listening to music from Spotify or reading articles on TMZ continues to grow. Many want access to the free content, but prefer not to automatically broadcast their activity across social sites like Facebook.
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TurnTo Networks and Janrain today announced a partnership enabling online stores to extend social sign-on with the Janrain User Management Platform (JUMP) to authenticate shoppers asking and answering product-related questions via TurnTo’s Social Q&A Platform. The integration of the two systems delivers added benefits from each. By enabling shoppers to authenticate through existing identities from providers [...]
Social Logins Can Simplify Online Shopping
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Online shoppers are now faced with what seems like a never-ending stream of requests to register or log in to a website in order to make a purchase.
#SMW round up: “Brands have to have a multiple personality disorder”
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‘The Many Faces of your Brand: Using social identities to communicate with multiple audiences’ Janrain’s first Social Media Week event saw Marketing VP Bill Piwonka and Digital and Social Media Strategist Jamie Beckland pose the question, ‘How can brands use social identities to communicate with multiple audiences?’
How social login helps brighten Lamps.com outlook
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Online lighting hub Lamps.com wanted to bring something new to the online space – a place where customer could interact much as they would in a physical store. One focus point – the checkout, because online checkouts can be clunky, take a long time and frustrate the shopper.
Silverpop’s Social Sign-In Supports LinkedIn: What It Means for B2B Lead Generation
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Earlier this week, digital marketing company Silverpop announced a partnership with Janrain, a social sign-in platform, to enable website visitors to register for online offers using their LinkedIn credentials. This feature could be a handy weapon for B2B marketers looking for a better way to generate leads via social media channels, so long as they know [...]
Silverpop Collects Email Addresses Via Social Sign-In Through LinkedIn
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Digital marketing provider Silverpop has enhanced its Social Sign-In feature, built through a partnership with Janrain, a provider of social identity and user management solutions. Silverpop customers will now be among the first to collect email addresses when an individual registers for an offer using existing LinkedIn credentials.
Silverpop First in its Industry to Collect Email Address via Social Sign-in Through LinkedIn
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Strategic Partnership with Janrain Gives Silverpop Customers Clear Advantage.
Customer Understanding? Just Ask
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Attaining an in depth understanding of the customer has become a fundamental component of every online marketing strategy. Organisations are looking to exploit the benefits of SEO and SEM investment by creating a relevant, responsive online experience that reflects the individual needs of each customer to drive engagement, loyalty and revenue.
Password length is more beneficial than complexity
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In a time before user names became online alter egos, the concept of a password implied a degree of exclusivity. Knowing the magic phrase that opened doors for social clubs or childhood spy games made you unique, put you one step ahead of those who couldn’t get past the gatekeepers.
Nearly 2 in 5 Would Rather Clean a Toilet Than Think Up a New Password
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Americans are tired of managing their online identities: 38% say they’d rather tackle household chores such as folding laundry or scrubbing a toilet than come up another new user name and password, and 38% say achieving world peace would be a more manageable task than remembering all their passwords, according to a survey from Janrain.
More Than A Third Click “Don’t Remember Password”
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According to the results of the 2012 Online Registration and Password study from Janrain, 58% of online adults have five or more unique passwords associated with their online logins and 30% of people have more than 10 unique passwords they need to remember. 38% of people think it sounds more appealing to tackle household chores [...]
Study: Passwords tiresome for many Americans
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Passwords for webmail, passwords for content sites, passwords for social media sites. Passwords, passwords, passwords. Substitute the tone of Jan Brady’s ‘Marcia-Marcia-Marcia’ and you have an inkling of how some Americans are feeling about passwords according to new research from Janrain and Harris Interactive.
Password Fatigue Sets in Online
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Many Americans would rather clean toilets than try to come up with a new username or password for sites requiring online logins, a new study shows. It’s no wonder that people are beginning to reel from password overload — nearly a third (30 percent) of us have more than 10 unique passwords we need to [...]
Consumers Frustrated by Site Registrations, Passwords
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88% of online adults don’t like being asked to register on a website, with 51% of those turned off by the idea of having to remember another user name or password, according to an August 2012 study by Janrain, conducted by Harris Interactive. This aversion stems from an excess of unique passwords they have to remember: 58% [...]
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38% of us Would Rather Clean a Toilet Than Think of New Password [STUDY]
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As our existence moves ever more online, digital security gets more important. Prominent breaches of that securityshow the havoc a determined hacker can wreak upon your personal and professional lives. But increased security can come at a price — way too many usernames and passwords to keep track of. If you find yourself overwhelmed by authentication overload, [...]
Password Fatigue Sets in Online
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Many Americans would rather clean toilets than try to come up with a new username or password for sites requiring online logins, a new study shows. It’s no wonder that people are beginning to reel from password overload — nearly a third (30 percent) of us have more than 10 unique passwords we need to [...]
Rather scrub toilets than create a new password? You’re not alone
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You know that sense of dread that fills your body when a website asks you to create a new user name, or when your company’s IT department sends another e-mail reminding you that it’s time to change your password again?
Social media success is about the wizard, not the wand
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Last year, thoughtful research genius Tom Webster wrote an interesting post about where the location-based business could head, moving beyond the momentary check-in toward more nuanced and relevant customer interactions, using location data as the raw materials.
6 Ways to Get Social Data Working for Your Brand
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As brands continue to integrate social media into their marketing efforts, the focus has increasingly turned to big data. In fact, you can’t have a conversation today with a social media provider without someone inevitably bringing up the topic of APIs to gain access to the data surrounding interactions. But unstructured data can be challenging [...]
Two Oregon firms on Inc. 500 list
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Two Oregon companies, Janrain and Elemental Technologies, have made Inc. magazine’s 2012 list of America’s 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies.
Users Of Smaller Social Sites Share, Consume More Content
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Consumers in the US are now on a variety of social networks, and while Facebook is still the most popular in terms of user numbers, other sites are more popular for sharing content—and others still for reading and viewing, without necessarily sharing.
LinkedIn introduces new developer tools to promote content sharing
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LinkedIn plans to make its website easier to navigate while providing faster access to developer tools.
Want To Understand Your Customer? Just Ask
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Investment in SEO and SEM has become a core component of any online strategy. But simply driving large numbers of new customers to a site is not enough; as recent research revealed, 100% of individuals reported receiving information or promotions that were not relevant.
Customer Understanding? Just Ask
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Russell Loarridge, European Sales Director, Janrain, outlines the way social login can be used in conjunction with SEO and onsite optimisation technologies to transform customer engagement.
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A report from Janrain found that Facebook is still the preferred social login tool among consumers, as 48 percent of all users turn to their Facebook login information to interact on other sites. According to Janrain’s study, encouraging people to use Facebook to login to a site could increase engagement. Providing an easy method for prospects to [...]
Facebook’s Share Of Social Logins At 48 Percent, Has Grown For Two Straight Years
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Facebook continues to be web users’ preferred option when it comes to social login, and has now seen two consecutive years of quarterly growth in that area.
Social Sharing Comes to GraphicMail
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The email marketing provider has teamed up with social login provider Janrain to launch a free social sharing widget that is currently in beta. The widget allows subscribers to share, forward and comment on newsletters via the browser view, as well as offers social login as a direct way for consumers to signup for newsletter mailing lists via a [...]
Think BR: Customer understanding? Just ask
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Social logins can be used in conjunction with SEO and onsite optimisation technologies to transform customer engagement, writes Richard Parboo, head of media and publishing UK and Europe, Janrain.
Social Login And Sharing Trends Across The Web
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The social media landscape is fragmented. People use Facebook to interact with friends and family, Twitter to follow influencers and share opinions, LinkedIn for their professional network, and Gmail, Yahoo! or Hotmail to communicate directly with contacts. Combined, these networks boast well over 1.5 billion accounts.
7 Ways to Leverage Social Commerce on Your Site
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Janrain has written a pretty informative and useful whitepaper about how to leverage social activity for ecommerce gains. And isn’t that what Starbucks did in many ways? It made its business not just a coffee business but a social one.
GraphicMail Integrates Janrain’s Social Sharing Widget To Improve Cross-Channel Reach
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“Janrain is always excited to see partners build on its functionality in new and creative ways. GraphicMail is a great example with its ability to translate newsletters during sharing, helping you grow a multi-language clientele – be it across borders or within your own country,” concluded Josh.
Janrain Extends Social Logins with Drupal Gardens, GraphicMail
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Janrain, known for its user management solutions for the social web, has announced two partnerships aimed at extending social access across multiple channels.
“Effective Executives” Series with Bill Piwonka, Janrain’s VP of Marketing
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This week’s “Effective Executives” interview is with Janrain‘s VP of Marketing, Bill Piwonka. Bill’s background is firmly rooted in B2B marketing operations. Over the past 20 years he has led marketing teams and initiatives spanning strategy, product marketing, product management, demand generation, marketing communications and business development.
Facebook, Google+ dominate social logins, study shows
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You see it all over the social web these days, the prompt to log-in using your Facebook/Twitter/Google+/LinkedIn account. But just how much are the so-called “social logins” catching on? A new survey by Janrain shows it’s on the rise and here to stay.
Facebook Gains Ground in Social Logins; Google Popular for Retail
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Facebook (48%) was the leading option in Q2 2012 for social logins among online users who opted to use a social network identity to speed up registration on sites across the web, according to July 2012 data from Janrain. Another 30% preferred to use their Google accounts for login, followed by Twitter (9%), Yahoo (8%), WindowsLive (3%) [...]
Mayer’s Mission: Yet To Be Defined
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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have the same problem: Find a way to monetize a massive and sticky user base. But Zuckerberg has two things Mayer doesn’t – a company with a clear-cut mission statement, and time.
Foundation gathering, open sourcing ID technology (Backplane)
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The OpenID Foundation introduces a message bus with identity capabilities as part of plan to create venue where ID technology can be vetted, open sourced and made available to enterprises, Web site operators and others.
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As our use of social media increases, so does the amount of information we share about our activities, our relationships and ourselves. Just ten years ago, marketers had to bribe customers to share a fraction of the rich data we have access to today.
The List: Fastest-growing private companies
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Always one of the Business Journal’s most exciting lists, this year’s fastest-growing private 100 companies didn’t disappoint. Software startup Janrain experienced more than 500% growth.
New life for business websites
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Russell Loarridge, European Sales Director for Janrain, argues that companies need to bridge their website with social media platforms if they want results.
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Google+ Battles Facebook for Social Login Dominance [Infographic]
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Google+ might not have the numbers to topple the leading social network yet, but don’t underestimate its potential for growth. This infographic shows how Google has used its social login feature to beat out Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo! and Windows Live.
Social media marketing still foxing brands
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It is becoming increasingly evident that many brands are struggling to clearly navigate the social media marketing channels and that there is a distinct lack of integration between social media strategy on the one hand, and ‘Social CRM’ strategy on the other.
The social log-in and sharing trends that may surprise you
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The social media landscape is fragmented. People use Facebook to interact with friends and family, Twitter to follow influencers and share opinions, LinkedIn for their professional network, and Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail to communicate directly with contacts. Combined, these networks boast over 1.5 billion accounts.
Janrain: Over three-quarters UK consumers want social login options
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Social login options are growing across the pond as well as in the US. New data from Janrain indicates more than 60% of UK consumers have left a website which required registration to use it and nearly 80% have offered either wrong or incomplete information to those websites.
Social Media Portal interview with Russell Loarridge from Janrain
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Profiled – Russell Loarridge, European Sales Director at Janrain
GraphicMail integrates innovative social-email subscription tool
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As more consumers begin to frequent the social web and brands integrate social media into their marketing and communications plans, having access to advanced social media tools has never been more vital.
GraphicMail, Janrain Engage Enable Email Newsletter Signup Via Facebook Credentials
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Hosted email marketing solution GraphicMail added social signup from Janrain Engage to its clients’ customizable newsletter signup forms, allowing them to sign in with their Facebook account information, or credentials from more than 25 other social networks, including Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, and MySpace.
Social Networks Add New Life To The Corporate Website
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When you look at the value of social networks, it becomes immediately obvious that while there is a new ecosystem in which to operate, the fundamentals of interaction remain unchanged. An organisation’s objective should always be to engage a user on the corporate website with content, products, services or other key parts of the site.
Measure Facebook success by depth of engagement
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When it comes to measuring the success of social media activity, the key for any brand is to know and understand who their ‘likes’ are from because everything else is just extrapolation.
Facebook Tops Social Login Preferences
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Though people use a variety of social channels to log in to third-party websites, Facebook still dominates social login, according to a report by Janrain. Facebook accounted for 45% of social logins in the first quarter of 2012, followed by Google with 31%.
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Facebook is said to go on the market Friday morning, an Initial Public Offering (IPO) which could raise more than $15 billion according to Reuters. Why the interest in the world’s largest social network? What does the IPO mean?
ShopIgniter, Janrain on why Facebook’s IPO is a big deal
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Facebook Inc.’s $16 billion initial public offering Friday will likely be seen as one of those seminal moments in the world of social networking. As of Wednesday afternoon, the company’s valuation had risen to $104 billion, a record for an American IPO.
How to Create Personalized Experiences Without Being Creepy
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In one brief scene from the 2002 movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise walks through the mall, where talking billboards scan his retinas, identify him, then call out his name to get his attention.
Social Sharing Data Vampires: They Vant to Suck Your Data
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Publishers are bleeding themselves dry, giving up the very customer data that hold the promise of their continued relevance in the digital age. They struggle to monetize online users, as the dimes from digital will never replace the analog dollars they no longer receive from print. They see social sharing as a way to drive [...]
The Social Sharing Shortcut To Registration
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According to the current quarterly study by Janrain Engage, across 365,000 websites analyzing social login and social sharing preferences, Facebook is the most popular option at 45%, while a majority would rather use a different social identity, such as Google, Yahoo! or Twitter.
Study: The social login preferences of consumers
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A new report from Janrain may help retailers make a better connection with their socially minded customer base. In January, Janrain’s research should a bulk of consumers felt website registrations were ‘annoying’ – to the point many avoided websites and retailers that required website registration to make purchases.
How social login could help you understand your customers
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Featuring a social login option on your business’ website will help you collect data and you’ll do your customers a favour – but think carefully about its downside before you add the Facebook button.
Facebook Approaching 50 Percent Share Of Social Logins [STUDY]
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Facebook is the number one choice for social login and its gains over the past two years have it now approaching 50 percent penetration among social login services, a new study shows.
Social Login and Social Sharing Trends Across the Web
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The social media landscape is fragmented. People use Facebook to interact with friends and family, Twitter to follow influencers and share opinions, LinkedIn for their professional network, and Gmail, Yahoo! or Hotmail to communicate directly with contacts. Combined, these networks boast over 1.5 billion accounts.
Techlandia: Portland 100 Wants To Help Local Startups Grow To $100 Million
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Portland, OR isn’t just a place where young people go to retire and hang out at urban wineries. The city also plays host to a fair number of prominent startups, including companies like Urban Airship, Janrain, Simple and Puppet Labs, as well as outposts of established players like Intel, Microsoft, IBM and eBay. To keep this momentum going, the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) launched [...]
Social LogIn – the future for customer engagement?
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Growing numbers of brand websites, from retail to media – now demand user registration in order to capture key customer data, improve understanding and drive better interaction and engagement. But what value is actually being derived? Russell Loarridge, European Sales Director at Janrain looks at why social login – the ability for consumers to use [...]
Consumers demanding social login for better brand engagement – study
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The majority of UK consumers (85%) are advocating social login as an alternative to traditional online registration, according to new research. According to Janrain, which surveyed over 600 social media active consumers for the report, the demand for social login highlights consumers’ disenfranchisement with brands with 96% of respondants claiming to receive irrelevant information and promotions [...]
Social login: Future of customer engagement?
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There is a growing disconnect between consumer expectation of the online experience and the reality. With 96% of individuals receiving information or promotions that are not relevant, according to the most recent research, organisations risk of disenfranchising their communities of users.
Facebook Grows Leading Share of Social Logins
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Facebook (45%) was the #1 option in Q1 2012 for social logins among online users who opted to use a social network identity to speed up registration on sites across the web, according to May 2012 analysis from Janrain. Data from the analysis indicates that 31% of users turned to their Google accounts for login, [...]
Oracle WebCenter Sites Builds On FatWire Foundation
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Oracle has partnered with social media integration specialist Janrain for social login and cross-posting functionality across 20 leading social networks. That means a user can authenticate through Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google before posting a comment, rather than creating an account specific to the company website.
Proven Technology Entrepreneurs Flock To Portland To Grow Startups
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Something is happening in the technology hub Portland, Oregon. Nestled between startup superpower Silicon Valley to the south and the home of Microsoft, Seattle, to the north, Portland is coming into its own as a destination for proven tech entrepreneurs to start their next companies.
Social Login Helps Discourage Shopping Cart Abandonment
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Social login is a tool that allows users to bring their information with them as they surf from site to site, thereby eliminating the need to register with new sites to make purchases and offers customized experiences with brands. Companies like Janrian are now offering services that allow users to sign in to new sites [...]
BlackEnterprise.com And Dell Launch ‘Small Business University’
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Free Eight-week Education Course Offers Expert Guidance to Entrepreneurs Looking to Start and Grow Small Businesses, With Chances to Win a Total Prize Value Of Over $50,000. Registration for Small Business University launches on Monday, April 23rd powered by Janrain, a leading user management platform for the social web. The sites gamification features will be powered [...]
9 Ways to Get More Comments, Tweets and Likes for Your Story
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Get readers buzzing about your next piece with these expert strategies.
Consumers demand social logins for brand sites too
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If you’re like most of us, you cannot keep track of the varied username/password protocols required to log back into a particular website. Is it the four-digit password or the eight-, you wonder? Is it the alpha-numeric version? Are symbols required? Right. I forget. Send me the change password details to my in-box and I’ll [...]
Top tips: New life for corporate sites- how social media can help
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Social media marketing is not only about directing traffic to the corporate site; it’s about what to do with the users once they are there. Russell Loarridge, European Sales Director at Janrain, explains why most value from social media can be obtained by bridging the gap between the corporate website and social media through social logins.
Customers Turn Off When You Make Them Log In: Survey Says
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Do you make customers register an account in order to leave comments on your blog, access information or shop? You could be driving them away. A study by Blue Research for Janrain found 86 percent of respondents get annoyed by having to create new accounts on websites, an increase of 10 percent from the same survey last year.
How Social Login Is Changing Business–and Your Privacy
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The latest new technology to upend both online business and your own privacy is social login. That’s the set-up that lets you log into a website using your Facebook, Twitter, or other social network account rather than have to create and register a new account and password. Millions of websites now employ social login, driven by the fact that the old site-specific registration and password system is no longer scalable.
Social Media Users Prefer Social Login Over Traditional
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More than three-quarters (77%) of social media users say websites should offer social login—i.e., using a social media identity to log in at a website—as an alternative to traditional account creation or logging in as a guest, up from the 66% who said so a year earlier, according to a study by Janrain.
Social Media Marketing: A look at 2012
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a popular blog post on using social media profiles for login on third-party websites rather than the more traditional form field registration. The post featured research from Janrain, a social Web user management platform, and some additional commentary from Larry Drebes, founder and CEO of Janrain.
Social Sign-On Is Consumers’ Choice
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As retailers and other websites consider the appropriate degree of integration between their sites and social networks like Facebook and Twitter, social sign-on can be a valuable tool. Internet users who might otherwise be reluctant to input their personal data over and over again across sites may be more willing to share that information if offered a less annoyingly repetitive way to do so, like through social sign-on. Sites that offer such a tool may find they better engage and convert visitors into customers.
Is social login the answer to annoying and disruptive user registrations?
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When you arrive at a site that asks you to register for an account before you can access certain content or functionality, does that drive you away?
A recent research report shows that a site that requires users to register does just that, drives users away. On the flipside, the same report shows that about half of all users are attracted by personalization capabilities on a site.
Social Login Preferred to Site Registration
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According to the Janrain Social Identity study, conducted by Blue Research, consumer frustration at being asked to register on a website continues to grow, and almost eight in ten people want social login to be offered as an alternative.
The research shows that marketers have a clear opportunity to increase conversion rates and online engagement by replacing traditional registration with social login. 86% of consumers are bothered by registering at a website and most will give false information or leave forms incomplete when creating a new account.
More Social Login, Less Online Headaches
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Janrain today released findings from their second Social Identity study conducted by Blue Research, showing that consumer frustration at being asked to register on a website continues to grow and almost eight in ten people want social login to be offered as an alternative. Janrain commissioned Blue Research for the study, which was conducted among a nationwide cross section of more than 600 consumers.
Social Media Marketing: Social login or traditional website registration?
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Janrain, a social Web user management platform provider, recently released its Social Identity study with the research conducted by Blue Research. The study involved a final sample size of 616, with respondents recruited by email and screened to ensure they either purchased a product online within the past 30 days, or read articles or watched video from major media outlets in the past 30 days. A key element of the survey was finding out how respondents felt about using a social login — Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.
Study: Consumers Leave Sites When Forced to Register
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Consumers are frustrated when asked to register on websites and almost eight in 10 people want social login to be offered as an alternative, reveals a study by Blue Research commissioned by Janrain. The study, conducted among a cross section of more than 600 US consumers, clearly shows how sites can increase their conversion rates.
Study Cites Password Fatigue, Growing Receptiveness To Social Logins
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If you’re growing increasingly frustrated with being prompted to register as a new user on a website, if you have so many logins and passwords at this point you can’t keep track of them all, and if you notice your password fatigue is leading you to leave a site altogether if you can’t log in after a couple cracks, now there’s a study confirming you’re not alone.
Consumers Interested in Social Log-In to Alleviate Online Registration Headaches
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Janrain today released findings from its second Social Identity study conducted by Blue Research, showing that consumer frustration at being asked to register on a website continues to grow and almost eight in 10 people want social log-in to be offered as an alternative.
Consumers Want Social Login Capabilities
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By now, most business owners realize the important role that social media plays within their business plan. But new research suggests that business owners should enable social to play an even bigger role, by becoming the login option for customers on a website. Ninety percent of consumers will leave a website if they forget their user name and password according to Janrain’s Social Identity study, which was conducted by Blue Research.
Site Registration Seen Driving Away Majority of Consumers
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54% of consumers say they may leave a website or not return when presented with registration requirements, while a further 6% say they will leave or avoid the site, according to [download page] a survey released in January 2012 by Janrain. 26% of consumers will go to a different site, if possible, representing a 53% jump from 17% of respondents who responded the same way the previous year. Similarly, the proportion saying they will complete registration dropped 44% from 25% to 14%.
Consumers are likely to pass on entering passwords on web sites
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Consumers active in online social networks are not happy about selecting new passwords in order to register at web sites, and would rather use their passwords from social networks like Facebook and Twitter, according to a survey released today. The survey was conducted by Blue Research on behalf of Janrain, which provides technology that enables retailers and other web site operators to offer log-in with social network credentials and use information from consumers’ social profiles for targeted marketing.
Janrain: 4 of 5 consumers say website registration annoying
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When it comes to registering to become part of a website or community, most consumers don't want to do it. Not only that, 86% (4 of 5) find the need to register or create new accounts for websites bothersome enough that they will change their habits – i.e. will not return to a website or will avoid the website in the future – if required to register.
Social logins pushing sign-ups, engagement
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As social network use has risen more consumers have begun switching to social logins outside their networks. Social logins basically allow consumers to use their social network profile login to sign up for newsletters, gain access to content and other online information rather than creating new accounts for every website they use.
Twitter, Facebook, Google – Social Login And Sharing Trends Across The Web [INFOGRAPHIC]
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How do people use social media to share content? Which of these platforms are they using to manage their social identify when logging in to sites around the web?
New data from Janrain reveals that while Facebook dominates both of these fields, Twitter commands a huge slice of the social sharing pie, and is starting to make waves as the social login of choice.
Social Sign-On Could Be a Boon for Retailers
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Online retailers, as well as other publisher sites that want to encourage visitors to register and sign in as a way to gain information about them, would do well to consider social sign-on, which allows internet users to carry a login from Facebook, Twitter, Google or a similar site elsewhere on the web without having to fill out forms and go through the hassle of a full registration process at each site they use.
Harness Social Media & Stop Losing Customers with Social Login
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There’s only one thing more disheartening to an online retailer than knowing that a lot of customers are going to abandon their shopping carts before completing a purchase. And that’s the discovery that a whopping three out of four of them will actually turn around and leave the website rather than endure the hassle of registering a new account.
Facebook Top Social Login Preference
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Facebook (42%) was the #1 option in Q3 2011 for social logins among online users who opted to use a social network identity to speed up registration on sites across the web, according to December 2011 analysis from Janrain. Data from the analysis indicates that 29% of users turned to their Google accounts for login, with Yahoo (11%), Twitter (8%), and WindowsLive (4%) appealing to a far smaller subset. Among mobile users, Facebook and Google were tied for the most popular, each with 37% of logins, ahead of Yahoo (12%) and Twitter (10%).
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The social media landscape is fragmented. People use Facebook to interact with friends and family, Twitter to follow influencers and share opinions, LinkedIn for their professional network, and Gmail, Yahoo! or Hotmail to communicate directly with contacts, finds a recent study by Janrain, Combined, these networks boast over 1.5 billion accounts.
A New Way To Lock In Your Customers
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There’s only one thing more disheartening to an online retailer than knowing that a lot of customers are going to abandon their shopping carts before completing a purchase. And that’s the discovery that a whopping three out of four of them will actually turn around and leave the website rather than endure the hassle of registering a new account.
5 Questions on Social Media With Larry Drebes
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We are pleased to feature Larry Drebes, CEO of Janrain, in today’s Business 2 Community Expert Interview Series. As businesses strive to employ social media, Janrain assists them with by providing social logins for over 350,000 sites.
The Digital Path to Social Media Success
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How social media is being integrated with the whole of digital marketing is one of the greatest momentums we’re now witnessing as marketers.
A great example of this can be seen in Jermiah Owyang’s presentation with Larry Drebes, unveiling recent research that demonstrates the desire and importance of marketers making their websites and social networks work together harmoniously.
5 Essential Tips for Managing Your Users’ Social Profile Data
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Online behavior tracking has been successfully employed for nearly a decade, but its tools do not uniquely identify users, and rightfully so. Tracking was only designed to group users into audience segments; for example, golden retriever owners who live in San Francisco, CA, or baseball and wine enthusiast females in their 30s who live in Seattle, WA.
Social Login Offers New ROI from Social Media
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In the last few years, most companies have realized that social media is more than just the latest fad in communicating to the under-30 demographic, and is instead a generator of real dollars and cents value for their businesses.
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Janrain Inc. on Wednesday announced a new partnership eBay Inc. and online pay service PayPal that takes the company’s user management software from the social media sphere to e-commerce.
Rethinking the Corporate Website for Building Customer Engagement
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While incorporating social media into marketing strategy is becoming standard practice, many organizations still struggle with how to make the most of opportunities created by these platforms and tools. As social media evolves, so too should the corporate website. It's no longer just about engaging with consumers on other sites across the Web; organizations today need to maximize social media to better engage with customers and create brand advocates while keeping traffic on their own sites.
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When Howard Schultz came on board with Starbucks in 1982 after a trip to Italy, he advised the company to evolve its business from coffee beans and accessories to coffeehouse culture and espresso by the cup. The idea was initially met with rejection from company founders. Given Starbucks’ meteoric rise over the next 20 years, the rest is history, with the lesson that businesses need to be cognizant of market trends and embrace new revenue channels that promise growth.
3 ways to build social commerce on your site
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When Howard Schultz came on board with Starbucks in 1982, he advised the company to evolve its business from coffee beans and accessories to coffeehouse culture and espresso by the cup. The idea was initially met with rejection from company founders. Given Starbucks’ meteoric rise since then, the rest is history, with the lesson that businesses must be cognizant of market trends and embrace new channels that promise growth.
Is the future of social commerce on Facebook?
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Facebook’s explosive growth has led many to question whether it will become the de facto hub of commerce for retailers. Facebook Commerce is alluring because it enables companies to harness social capital, and retailers are eager to tap into the tremendous word-of-mouth potential of fans liking products, making purchases, and sharing with friends.
Why Mainstream Social Networks Complicate Our Identities
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People are naturally social creatures. That’s what makes social media such a powerful concept. Social media channels allow human beings to sort themselves into groups and factions seamlessly, and maintain intimate relationships at greater distances than ever before.
But as anthropologist Herbert Spencer describes in his theory of the social organism, society is a system of interrelated parts that operate interdependently. Social media users understand that concept intuitively, and segment their relationships accordingly.
Silverpop Announces Social Sign-In Tool
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Email service provider Silverpop today announced it is adding a tool to its offerings that allows people to register on clients’ websites using their social media accounts.
Dubbed Social Sign In, the tool was developed by Janrain, a Portland, OR-based company that provides social-identity-management technology.
Silverpop readies Social Sign In tool
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Marketing technology company Silverpop has developed a tool that allows consumers to register for websites through their preferred social network. Silverpop, which added the Social Sign In tool to its site August 23, will make it available to clients in the fourth quarter via a beta release.
Silverpop partnered with social-identity management firm Janrain to develop the platform.
Portland startup making passwords user-friendly
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Portland is filled with small companies doing some very big high tech work, especially in social media and the web. A company called Janrain is one of them finding a solution to all those usernames and passwords half of the time we tend to forget.
Got Funds? Janrain Scores $15.5 Million For Social Identity Management
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Social identity manager Janrain just closed a $15.5 million round of funding led by Emergence Capital Partners. Previous investors Anthem Venture Partners, DFJ Frontier, RPM Ventures, Tim Draper and founder Larry Drebes all participated in the round, which also included Square 1 Bank. Since Janrain’s previous $3.25 million financing round in December 2009, the company has grown on average 300% year over year.
Janrain lands $15.5M to supercharge the social web
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Janrain, the Portland, Oregon-based software-as-a-service company, has closed on $15.5 million in funding. Janrain plans to put the money toward general growth initiatives such as hiring and product development, CEO Larry Drebes said in an interview Tuesday. The new round brings Janrain’s total venture capital investment to $18.75 million.
The dream of OpenID is alive in Portland: Janrain lands $15.5 million in funding
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If you don’t know the story of Janrain, you should. It’s a story of perseverance, constant tweaking, and now a chunk of cash to help it grow and expand. You see, Janrain has just secured $15.5 million, making it one of the biggest startup wins in Portland in quite a while.
Funding round, platform releases encourage online businesses
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As consumers continue spending more time online and less time with newspapers and television, brands are trying new ways of engaging those users where they 'live'. Thus far, most are hanging out on social networks or playing games, areas where it can be difficult for brands to truly engage. Two platform releases and a funding announcement make make those integrations simpler.
Janrain Raises Series B To Leverage Social Profiles
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Janrain Inc., a company whose technology enables people to log in to websites through their social media accounts, has raised a $15.5 Series B round led by Emergence Capital, reflecting the rapid growth of social networks as a way for companies to reach their customers.
Janrain lands $15.5M to supercharge the social web
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Janrain, the Portland, Oregon-based software-as-a-service company, has closed on $15.5 million in funding. Janrain plans to put the money toward general growth initiatives such as hiring and product development, CEO Larry Drebes said in an interview Tuesday. The new round brings Janrain’s total venture capital investment to $18.75 million.
Janrain logs $15.5M to help log you in through social networks
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An increasing number of sites are letting visitors log in through their existing social network identities. One company helping enable that trend, Janrain, announced a $15.5 million funding round led by Emergence Capital Partners, to keep ease of registration alive.
Portland’s Janrain lands $15.5 million venture round for its social networking logins
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Sign in to your Sears account with your Facebook ID, or log on to LadyGaga.com with your Twitter handle. Either way, the connection is made by a downtown Portland company called Janrain.
Social networking is the hottest investment property going, and Janrain is the latest beneficiary of that fervor. The company plans to announce $15.5 million in new venture capital today, making it one of the biggest venture rounds for an Oregon software company in many years.
Janrain Raises $15.5M for Social Log-ins
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Managing online identities used to be a niche cause full of acronyms and hypotheticals, but now that the Web is getting more personalized it’s obvious how integral this topic is — witness the recent debate about Google+ and Facebook requiring real names versus allowing anonymous usage.
Janrain lands $15.5M to supercharge the social web
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Janrain, the Portland, Oregon-based software-as-a-service company, has closed on $15.5 million in funding. Janrain plans to put the money toward general growth initiatives such as hiring and product development, CEO Larry Drebes said in an interview Tuesday. The new round brings Janrain’s total venture capital investment to $18.75 million.
Social sign-in? Facebook preferred
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Facebook may be the largest global social network, but when it comes to creating social profiles for websites, Facebook is just one of many social identities that consumers are using. According to new data from Janrain, Facebook information is the most used for social sign-in, but it isn't winning the race by a large margin.
Facebook remains the most popular social login as mobile usage surges
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As brands and website owners begin to integrate social networking logins to boost the number of signups and increase interaction, Facebook continues to be the most popular social login in the second quarter, but it has stiff competition, a new report from social media platform specialists Janrain reveals.
Report: Facebook most popular sign-in on other sites
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For now, Facebook remains the top dog in social sign-ins, but a recent report shows that it's got a lot of competition, notably from Google — and that's not even counting Google+ yet.
4 in 10 Use Facebook for Social Sign-in
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About four in 10 (39%) users of the Janrain Engage social connection service used Facebook for social sign-in (SSI) during Q2 2011, according to data from Janrain. This was 30% more than the 30% of users who used number two SSI site Google.
Move Over Demographics, Psychographics Have Arrived
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Traditional demographics have been falling out of favor for a few years in the industry offline and online, with CBS Chief Research Officer David Poltrack dramatically announcing last March that the company, in partnership with Nielsen, would no longer employ traditional demographics to analyze its audience, describing the practice as "hazardous" to media and marketers.
The End of Demographics: How Marketers Are Going Deeper With Personal Data
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Marketers have built a temple that needs to be torn down. Demographics have defined the target consumer for more than half a century — poorly. Now, with emerging interest graphs from social networks, behavioral data from search outlets and lifecycle forecasting, we have much better ways of targeting potential customers.
4 ways social has changed success metrics
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The advent of social networks, the noisy nature of the web, and our reliance on friends to inform decisions have led to a shift in success metrics for a website. Today to get ahead, we need to track the quality of visitors to our site, how these site visitors interact on our site, and how they share our content. These new metrics are forcing marketers to create more engaging content and experiences. The only way to do this effectively requires some knowledge of the user.
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Marketers are increasingly adopting new gamification strategies to build and retain customer engagement. Here, Chiquita, 20th Century Fox, and Moxsie share insight into how they use game mechanics to amp up their online marketing campaigns.
4 Questions with Janrain’s CEO
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A new solution in the social space could help brands get a better handle on social media campaigns. From Janrain, the SaaS consulting solution leverages heavy-hitters in the social space link Facebook and Twitter, allowing brands to use their social profiles to optimize digital strategies.
Portland social networking companies stand to benefit from LinkedIn fervor
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The bubbly froth surrounding LinkedIn's public stock offering Thursday sloshed over into Portland, where a cluster of small social-networking companies celebrated Wall Street's embrace of their technology.
Janrain Engage Offers Social Login And Sharing For Android Apps
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OpenID software creator Janrain is bringing its social login SDK to Android phones today. Janrain plug and play technology allows an app developer’s visitors to sign-in to the app with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn or other networks and then publish their comments, purchases, reviews or other activities from the app to multiple social networks.
One Log-In Catches on for Many Sites
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If you’re reading this article online, glance to the right for the opportunity to share or recommend it. Doing so via a third-party Web site is an example of social log-in services — and Facebook has just overtaken Google as the leading social log-in site.
GameIndustry.com: Janrain rolls out game-like brand advertising solution
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"After carefully weighing our options for building a social rewards solution in-house versus integrating with a best in class technology provider, we selected Badgeville, a recognized leader in the space, for their comprehensive, lightweight and flexible platform," said Larry Drebes, Janrain CEO.
Facebook Becomes Top Choice for Social Sign-In
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For the first time, Facebook overtook Google as the most popular network ID used to sign in to websites to share content
Facilitating the Foursquare factor: Janrain partners with Badgeville to offer game mechanics
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Seems like everyone is trying to incorporate game mechanics into their applications and offerings. Or, as we used to call them, “frequent flyer programs” or “loyalty programs.” Granted, there’s more than that to game mechanics, but that’s a big part of it.
Janrain rolls out game-like brand advertising solution
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With research showing more people logging on to online and social games each month, many brands are looking for ways to capitalize on the craze. Enter a new partnership from Janrain and Badgeville; the partnership allows advertisers to create game-like environments to build brand loyalty and advocacy.
Facebook Eclipses Google for Social Sign-in
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Facebook has eclipsed previous social sign-in favorite Google as the leading social sign-in (SSI) site among users of the Janrain Engage social connection service. During Q1 2011, Janrain recorded a preference for Facebook SSI among 35% of Engage users, compared to 31% who preferred Google.
Janrain: Facebook Has Eclipsed Google As Most Popular Sign-In Choice
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Janrain, a user management platform that enables third party sign-in with 18 different providers, including Facebook, Google, and Twitter; is releasing its Q1 2011 report today. Janrain’s report analyzes data from networks for social login and social sharing across the 350,000 websites worldwide that use Janrain sign-in product, Engage. For the first time in a year, Facebook has surpassed Google as the consumer preference for signing into Internet sites using Janrain.
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B2B social media items discussed: Are social Q&A services worth your time, searching tweets by Linkedin profile data and how SXSW used social sync to make registration data useful.
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Will consumers opt-in for ad targeting? One company is betting publishers can get active participation by users in making the ads they see relevant to their interests. Janrain is a company which has brands as diverse as MTV, Sears and Kia Motors as clients. According to the company, single-sign-on, tied to social identities and their corresponding social graph, is a viable solution that solves privacy issues as well as creates an effective data funnel across platforms and devices.
Integrating Social Media Is Hard to Do
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Social media is everywhere, right? Not quite. The one place it isn’t is inside traditional CRM systems. While the marketing department and sales team are busy interacting with customers on social-networking sites, the potentially valuable information created by these exchanges remains largely isolated from core customer databases and analytics systems.
Is it a bother to register on a website when registering online?
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Is it a bother to register on a website when registering online?
B2B Social Media Lead Generation Explained
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B2B social media marketing is particularly well suited for business-to-business lead generation. Business purchasing decisions are made by stakeholder committees with diverse priorities and a voracious appetite for details. Social media is the most efficient channel for committees of engineers, product developers, purchasing managers and marketers to self-educate, and a way for marketers to abbreviate sales cycles.
Social Sign-In Favored Over Traditional Web Registration
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Consumers are frustrated with online registration: When required to register or create an account at a website, only 25% do so, whereas 75% leave the site; 66% say social sign-in would be a good alternative, according to a new study by Janrain.
Should You Make Consumers Register to Buy Online?
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New research says consumers will lie on forms, leave them unfinished, or favor websites that don't require registration.
How to Combat Abandonment with Social Sign-On
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Retailers and web publishers know users don’t like creating a new account at every site they visit. But it could be costing them big in terms of completed purchases or other engagement metrics if they force users to fill out forms.
Social Sign-In Produces Profits
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Allowing online consumers to conduct social sign-in (SSI) for an e-commerce site rather than create a new user account can produce higher levels of spending and customer satisifaction, according to [pdf] a new survey from social user management platform provider Janrain and Blue Research. Data from “Importance of Identity Solutions” indicates that during the 2010 holiday season, 21% of those who consider social sign-in desirable (fans) expected to spend more than in 2009, compared to 16% of critics.
Social Sign-in Rates High in Survey
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Ad-driven websites, just as the magazines and publications before them, have tried all kinds of measurements and statistics to quantify the value of their readership to potential advertisers. There are many different measurements, like pageviews, time spent on the site and the number of unique visitors that provide insight into how much traffic a site gets and the level of engagement by those who visit it.
Online Retail Registration Restricts Response
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According to the recent Social Identity study by Janrain, and conducted by Blue Research, 75% of consumers take issue with being asked to register on a website and will change their behavior as a result. The study was conducted during the height of the 2010 holiday shopping season among a nationwide cross section of consumers.
5Qs with Janrain CEO Larry Drebes
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Janrain, which recently raised $1 million in growth financing, announced Wednesday that MTV Networks will be using the platform for single-sign-on access to and from The Daily Show, VH1, The Colbert Report and a slew of other sites as well as all of the leading social networks. This means that marketers and brands can reach clientele across virtually every major youth-oriented content channel through MTV as users gain access to multi-channel content using Janrain technology. Larry Drebes, Janrain's CEO, spoke with Digiday about Janrain’s innovations in social publishing.
MTV Network Integrates Across Properties, Social
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MTV Networks (MTVN) has implemented Janrain Engage to give site visitors one log-in across the network of more than 50 properties, as well as the ability to share articles, comments, and video clips with friends on multiple social networks and sites including Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and MySpace.
Take that, Facebook: MTV signs up for Janrain’s social tools
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Companies like Facebook and LinkedIn have been extending their reach with website login and sharing tools. But social login startup Janrain said it’s holding its own and has just announced a deal to handle logins across MTV’s network of sites.
Google Still Rules as the Most Used Social Media Login
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In an average day, I log-in to no less than twenty different websites. Some of these are blogs I work on. Some are communities I follow. Then there’s Amazon, eBay, Gmail, Facebook and Twitter. Each place has its own username and password and some make me change my password on a regular basis. Firefox remembers most of them for me, thank heavens, but it’s not an exact science.
How to convert site visitors into members
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Historically, marketers have paid close attention to site traffic, time on site, and page view metrics. Success on today's internet, the social web, is not guaranteed by any of these numbers.
The Social Web: The Game Has Shifted
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Marketers historically have paid close attention to site traffic, time on site and page view metrics. Success on today's Internet, the social web, is not guaranteed by any of these numbers.
Ning Partners With Janrain To Offer Social Sign-Ins To Users
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Ning is partnering with user management platform for the social web Janrain to offer Ning Creators the ability to add social login and invite friends features to their members. Ning will offer creators the ability to use Janrain Engage, which allows an app developer’s visitors to sign-in to the app with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn or other networks and then publish their comments, purchases, reviews or other activities from the app to multiple social networks.
You Can Now Use Your PayPal ID for Logins with Janrain
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There are currently over 80 million active PayPal users and starting today, they will be able to use their PayPal credentials to log in to sites that use Janrain Engage to power their logins and sign-ups. Among today’s launch partners are Mahalo, Interscope Records and Tal.ki.
Creating an Effective Online Member Acquisition Strategy
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Marketers historically have paid close attention to site traffic, time on site and page view metrics. Success on today’s Internet, the social web, is not guaranteed by any of these numbers. The game has shifted, and most savvy marketers are waking up to the fact that new key performance indicators are more relevant.
Social Logins Made Easy with Janrain
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User authentication in apps is a pain, even if you’ve built an authentication system dozens of times. Forms, sessions, user tables, validation, password management, the list goes on in the seemingly never-ending to-do list for setting up a simple signup, login, and logout system for your app. OpenID company Janrain makes it easier, building on top of social networks.
Janrain Engage Offers Social Publishing For The iPhone
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OpenID software creator Janrain is launching a new iPhone SDK today, called JanRain Engage, which allows an app developer’s visitors to sign-in to the app with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn or other networks and then publish their comments, purchases, reviews or other activities from the app to multiple social networks.
22 Social Media Marketing Management Tools
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With every online marketing channel and discipline, there must be tools to make the task of marketing more efficient and effective. Social Media Marketing is no different. Over the past 6-9 months, I’ve been researching and reviewing a variety of social media management tools that help with everything from source network connections to campaign & social content management to monitoring & measurement. While there numerous tools that manage single platforms (like Twitter) this list includes services that manage multiple social network accounts, content and measurement.
Podcast: Get Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers While You Sleep
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Finally, there’s a way to grow your social network, increase engagement and site registrations without having to Tweet and Facebook 24/7. Through a relatively new type of service called a user management platform for the social web, you can invite visitors to your destination website to use their Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, MySpace or Open ID credentials to register or log in when they visit.
10 Useful APIs for your Web Site & App
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Web APIs change the way content and services are consumed and manipulated. Web developers can take advantage of 1000s of APIs to add more content or functionality to their site. We’ve compiled a list of 10 most useful APIs you can consider using for your web site or application.
Use Janrain Engage to connect your website to over 75 million professionals active on LinkedIn
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Did you know a new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second? All of these people could use their LinkedIn credentials to login to your website, share your content to their LinkedIn network and even post comments on your article or blog posts using their professional identity.
7 Ways to Increase User Participation
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Running a site doesn't only require Web development skills. Any site where the users can add content and communicate with each other requires a great deal of care and attention if it's going to be a success.
This Week In StartUps with Larry Drebes, Founder of Janrain
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This week Jason Calacanis interviews Larry Drebes, VP of Engineering and Founder of Janrain. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
How To: Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage
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JanRain Engage provides a convenient way to enable social logins on a site via a single API. This includes support for Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and over a dozen additional services.
Implementing JanRain Engage on your site is a lot less work than implementing each login provider one by one. Also, as any changes to each login will be handled by JanRain, you won't have to keep updating your authentication code if changes are made by the login provider.
Interviews From The Cloud Identity Summit, Part I: Brian Kissel of OpenID
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During the course of the summit, I interviewed several people deeply involved in influencing how we will all securely logon to cloud applications in the future. Today I’m publishing a podcast I recorded with Brian Kissel, CEO of Janrain Software and Chairman of the Board for the OpenID Foundation.
Google Winning Sign-In War, But Facebook Close Behind
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Most website users still prefer logging in with a Google account, but Facebook is a close second, according to new data from Janrain, a Portland startup whose software plugin makes it easy for websites to offer multiple login methods.
Google Is the Preferred Login Option Across the Web
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Facebook’s Open Graph platform has certainly made a lot of waves and the ‘Like’ button has been embedded on a large number of sites. But when it comes to login options, it looks like Google is still leading, according to numbers from Janrain.
Google Winning Sign-In War, But Facebook Close Behind
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Most website users still prefer logging in with a Google account, but Facebook is a close second, according to new data from Janrain, a Portland startup whose software plugin makes it easy for websites to offer multiple login methods.
How People Are Signing In Across the Web
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OpenID company Janrain has just released its latest usage study detailing what social networks and services people use to sign in and share activities across the web.
Q&A: Janrain’s CEO Discusses OpenID in the Federal Government
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Janrain is a Portland company working with the federal government to replace login and registration blocks with an OpenID framework. The company is the only service provider that is working with the Apps.Gov site to provide OpenID-based login and registration tools.
Janrain launches service to capture users’ social data
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Responding to the appetite from publishers for more rich data about their users, Janrain has added to its platform with a service to help publishers store social-networking data.
Janrain launches service to capture users’ social data
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Responding to the appetite from publishers for more rich data about their users, Janrain has added to its platform with a service to help publishers store social-networking data.
Janrain Launches New User Management Solution for Online Businesses
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Janrain Launches New User Management Solution for Online Businesses New Cloud Based Offering Allows National Geographic Channel and YellowPages.ca™ to Selectively Share User Profiles Across Multiple Web Properties and Applications to Increase Online ROI.
National Geographic Channel using Janrain platform to collect consumer data
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Janrain, a provider of user-management platforms for the social web, released its Janrain Capture software-as-a-service platform August 10. The National Geographic Channel is among the companies using it to collect data about website visitors.
The Engaged User: Bridging Your Website and Social Networks
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Augment push marketing with a pull strategy that empowers users to promote online interactions with your brand to their friends via social networks.
Triton Digital Media Ramps Up Social Media Presence with Janrain Engage
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As social media is becoming increasingly important to the radio sector, Triton Digital plans to integrate Janrain Engage’s authentication and social publishing capabilities into the Loyalty Program of its technology platform that also includes a CMS, ad serving, and e-commerce components. As social media is becoming increasingly important to the radio sector, Triton Digital plans to integrate Janrain Engage’s authentication and social publishing capabilities into the Loyalty Program of its technology platform that also includes a CMS, ad serving, and e-commerce components.<
Software links station sites, social networks
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Triton Digital is ramping up its social media product line to stations. It’s begun integrating Janrain’s Engage service into the loyalty program of its technology platform. That will allow stations using Triton software to more easily connect their website to social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Triton Digital Ramps Up Social Media Presence With Janrain Engage
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Triton Digital Media will be integrating Janrain's Engage service into their technology platform as well as becoming an authorized reseller of Janrain Engage. Triton Digital currently supports more than 6,000 radio station affiliates across the country.
As social media is becoming increasingly important to the radio sector, Triton Digital plans to integrate Janrain Engage’s authentication and social publishing capabilities into the Loyalty Program of its technology platform that also includes a CMS, ad serving, and e-commerce components.
The Engaged User: Bridging Your Website and the Social Networks
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While incorporating social media into marketing strategy is becoming standard practice, many organizations still struggle with how to make the most of opportunities created by social media platforms and tools. The objective should be for a user on your website to stay engaged with content, products, services or other key parts of the site.
Earning Identity From Anonymous Users
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Don’t make registration difficult. The more steps and information you require from a user, the less likely he or she will be to share valid information or even participate. JanRain and Facebook Connect are two great options to consider here.
Janrain leverages social media to increase signups, return visitors
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There may be no more misunderstood page on your website than the registration form. For many publishers, capturing accurate user data is paramount to the optimal online experience. Users, however, are often reluctant to provide personal information for privacy reasons.
Why Social Publishing Drives More Valuable Traffic
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A number of major media companies are starting to implement tools for third-party authentication for consumers. We spoke with Janrain, which provides a tool called Engage that companies like Tribune Interactive, Meredith, E.W. Scripps, The Dallas Morning News, bizjournals, and the National Geographic Society are all using. With the solution, publishers can authenticate users via third-party logins using as many as 16 different providers, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo LinkedIn, etc.
How publishers drive more valuable traffic from social networks
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As it became known, a number of major media companies have started to launch users’ authentication via third-party logins by using as many as 16 different social-networking providers, like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo LinkedIn and others.
Janrain Signs a Slew of Media Heavyweights into Identity Capture Tools
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At a time when Facebook couldn’t be under more scrutiny for its user policies, traditional news publishers have quietly figured out how to exploit this and other social networks to drive more registrations to their sites.
LA Times and other big publications sign-in to Janrain’s authentication service
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A growing number of publishers want to connect with their readers’ social network accounts, according to a startup called Janrain. The Portland, Ore. company just announced some major media companies as new customers for its product, Engage, which authenticates site visitors and lets them share content using their accounts from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Janrain cuts the hassle of registering (and registering again) at web sites
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Online retailers have long tried to get consumers to register with an e-mail and password on their web sites. But as e-commerce has grown more popular, customers have grown weary of entering their personal data over and over at new sites.
Bridging your website with social networks
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While incorporating social media into marketing strategy is becoming standard practice, many organizations still struggle with how to make the most of opportunities created by social media platforms and tools. The objective should be for a user on your website to stay engaged with content, products, services or other key parts of the site.
Bringing Google, Facebook, Twitter Together: Third Party Login Grows Rapidly in 2010
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This March has been a busy time for the leading architects of the social web. Twitter announced its @Anywhere at Chirp. Meanwhile, Facebook brought the Open Graph protocol to light the path of social sharing and separately announced support for OAuth 2.0 at F8.
39% Trust Their Login Credentials to Google; Twitter Not So Much
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You have probably noticed a trend over the past couple of years of sites allowing you to login using your an existing credentials from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others. According to a survey of 170,000 web sites, JanRain says that Google is-surprise, surprise-the login of choice for many web users.
How to Gain Customer Insights with OpenID
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As brands continue to evaluate ways to capitalize on the growing digital trail consumers leave behind online, more and more of them are adopting OpenID, which allows visitors to their Web destinations to register for product information or participate on company hosted communities or blogs via pre-existing profiles such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn or Yahoo. JanRain released a report that provides insight into the leading types of logins users prefer.
Facebook and Google Dominate Online Identity War [STATS]
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A new study from OpenID company JanRain shows that users heavily prefer to use their Google and Facebook logins on websites that offer third party sign-in options.
JanRain Brings OpenID And Other Single Sign-On Options To iPhone Apps
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The only thing more cumbersome than creating a new account at every Website you want to sign into is having to create a new account before you can enjoy an iPhone app. The Web is well on its way to solving this problem with OpenID, Facebook Connect, and other universal identity systems. And, of course, plenty of iPhone apps use Facebook Connect or Twitter OAuth already. But today iPhone developers are getting a new option from JanRain: a menu of sign-in options from OpenID providers (Google, Yahoo, AOL) to Facebook Connect to Twitter.
Lady Gaga as the Killer App: Moving Identity into the Cloud
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A jaw-dropping statistic was given at the 2010 OpenID User Experience Summit that 89% of users coming to LadyGaga.com chose a third-party logon rather than create a new account. "Signup with Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace" is the default option on LadyGaga.com – and it works. Universal Music Group uses the RPX software as a service, provided by JanRain, to power this capability for the site.
Can OpenID Be Commercialized? Investors Bet $3.25 Million On JanRain
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JanRain has always been on the forefront evangelizing OpenID, the decentralized authentication method for the new Web, as a founding member of the OpenID Foundation. The company just got a vote of confidence from three U.S.-based venture capital firms: we’ve learned that the startup has recently raised a $3.25 million Series A round of financing led by DFJ Frontier with participation from RPM Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners.
JanRain Lands $3.25M, Looks to Expand Web Identity Offerings, Push Social Publishing
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It has been a busy fall for JanRain. The Portland, OR-based software startup is announcing today it has closed a $3.25 million Series A financing round led by West Coast firm DFJ Frontier. RPM Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners also participated in the round.. The company also has been signing up new corporate customers for its flagship product, which lets websites register visitors so they can sign on more easily using secure, universal logins, instead of needing a separate password for every site.
Identity Management Company JanRain Raises $3.25M
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One of the most vexing problems on the Internet remains the challenge of trying to remember passwords every time you visit a new Web site. JanRain is hoping it has the technological solution to help computer users overcome that challenge. The company, which has been developing online identity technologies for the past four years, has just scored $3.25 million in fresh capital to push the idea forward.
Interview with Brian Kissel, JanRain
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Today, Portland-based JanRain announced it has raised $3.25M in a Series A funding round from DFJ Frontier, RPM Ventures, and Anthem Venture Partners. We caught up with the firm's CEO, Brian Kissel, to hear more about the firm and the funding.
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Portland-based online identity technology company JanRain Inc. on Monday said it has received $3.25 million in new venture capital. JanRain will use the capital to expand its product offerings for Web site operators and grow sales and marketing efforts. The company’s flagship product is called RPX, a software-as-a-service offering that allows Web site operators to register and login visitors through their existing accounts on sites such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Twitter and MySpace.
Get to the Good Part with Coggno’s LMS
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Coggno has added JanRain's RPX to its learning management system to cater to such organizations. Coggno no longer asks users to create a separate Coggno account, but instead provides a variety of login options from pre-existing accounts from other sites. Through RPX, learners and administrators can now sign in to Coggno using their identities from sites like Yahoo!, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, AOL, WordPress, and Google. The problem of forgetting passwords and having to create different accounts for different sites can be solved with applications like RPX.
JanRain lands venture round, plans hiring and a move downtown
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Long-incubating Portland startup JanRain announced $3.25 million in Series A venture backing this morning, coupled with immediate growth plans. The money comes from DFJ Frontier, which led the round, RPM Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners. With its cash infusion, the company plans to accelerate product development and marketing.
US Federal Government Announces Pilot Program to Support OpenID
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Ten industry leaders announced today they will support the first pilot programs designed for the American public to engage in open government — government that is transparent, participatory, and collaborative. This open identity initiative is a key step in President Obama’s memorandum to make it easy for individuals to register and participate in government websites — without having to create new usernames and passwords. These companies will act as digital identity providers using OpenID and Information Card technologies.
Add Single Sign-on to Your Web Site for Free With RPX
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JanRain, a respected OpenID provider, has released RPX, a service which makes installing single sign-on on your own web site extremely quick and easy, allowing your visitors to register using their existing account credentials from another site. RPX’s basic plan is free and lets you support up to six service providers, such as Windows Live ID, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and more.
Can Sears Help OpenID Go Mainstream?
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Sears has just announced that it will use JanRain’s RPX solution to enable over one million monthly MySears and MyKmart visitors to use their Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or other accounts to log into the community websites, enabling them to write product reviews and share information about products and services without the need to create a separate account.
Social IDs Go Shopping: Kmart and Sears Implement OpenID
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Users on Kmart's and Sears' web properties can now use their OpenID credentials to sign up and log in to these sites. MyKmart.com and MySears.com, which are both owned by the Sears Holding Company, implemented technology from Viewpoint and JanRain to allow users to use their login credentials from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Live, as well as from any other OpenID provider.
Sears Makes It Easier To Sign In To Its New Online Communities
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Aiming to make it easier for consumers to participate in its new online communities, Sears Holdings Corp. announced today that users can sign on to MySears.com and MyKmart.com using their user names and passwords from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other popular web services, employing JanRain's RPX service to manage the authentication.
Google OpenID Updates UI, Extends More Data to Relying Party Sites
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Google announced two enhancements to their OpenID API. For end users, they have rolled out a popup-style interface for simpler logins with fewer redirects and less confusion. They also extended their Attribute Exchange to include more user data, such as first and last names, preferred language, country, and other, more personal information available via the Google Data API … OpenID products company JanRain is using the new API in their RPX offering.
Portland’s JanRain instrumental in latest Google OpenID API rollout
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Portland is the de facto hub of OpenID development, (as) Google has just announced two new enhancements to the Google OpenID API. And it just so happens that Portland-based JanRain and their RPX solution have come to play a critical role in the announcement: they’re one of the first examples of the new features in use.
JanRain Offers Universal Logins, Puts Portland at Center of Internet Identity Movement
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JanRain makes software that gives customers and employees secure, universal logins for the Web, and it enables companies’ websites to accept these logins. The software works via OpenID, an open-source effort in online identity and authentication that originated in Portland. OpenID is already accepted by some 30,000 websites—mostly smaller sites focused on user-generated content, blogs, and wikis, but it’s also supported by some big players like AOL, Yahoo, MySpace, Google Blogger, and Microsoft.
OpenID and Facebook Connect: actually, does there have to be a winner
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The guys at JanRain, of Portland, Oregon, have a solution that enables you to log in through a single and smart looking interface … They provide a hosted solution for authenticating your site users using OpenID or Facebook Connect, giving you some simple code to add to your site where your login form goes today. With just a few clicks, visitors to your site can sign up using the identity from a number of sites (Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, Google Mail, AOL to name a few), or continue to register using your existing sign up process.
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JanRain has a universal login product that addresses the complexity issue. It provides a simple software-as-a-service solution based on OpenID … OpenID has the advantage of being a consistent standard with lots of big-name supporters, including Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL, Time Warner's online business.
A Service to Simplify Sign-ons
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Adapting your existing site to accept OpenIDs can be a job for your web developer, or you can look to a solution like that offered by OpenID services provider JanRain. Its myOpenID Affiliate Program and OpenID Website Enablement are two options that can get a website up and running quickly with OpenID.
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JanRain’s RPX plug-in lets users log in to a website using OpenID or proprietary methods, like Facebook Connect, through the same interface. It's really pretty, too. There are other examples of this kind of paradigm, but I expect to see them proliferate in the coming year.
JanRain Offers Distributed Social Options Galore, Interscope Geffen A&M Bites
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JanRain RPX brings all of the potential login options – Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, and Google Friend Connect, as well Yahoo!, AOL, and other OpenID accounts – into a single login interface. This does two things. First, it enables developers to deploy a variety of similar, yet not synonymous, logins more efficiently. And second, it gives users the option of choosing the most familiar method of providing credentials to sites.
JanRain Promotes OpenID Adoption Through The Long Tail
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JanRain has released a new SaaS offering for websites that want to become relying parties for OpenID … RPX is being marketed toward medium sites that want to increase their registration conversation rates, import user information from elsewhere, and build out connections to other social services via oAuth.
OpenID Gets SaaS-y: JanRain Works to Ease OpenID Adoption
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OpenID adoption has been lopsided. Getting sites to offer OpenIDs has been relatively popular. Google, Yahoo!, MySpace, and countless others provide OpenID addresses for their users. Even AOL users have an OpenID. Far less popular? Allowing users to access their accounts on those services with an OpenID … But JanRain is hoping to change that with the release of RPX, a new subscription-based service that simplifies implementing OpenID. RPX promises to result in more OpenID login opportunities on the Web – and a revenue stream for JanRain.
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Regular Internet users know how difficult it can be to manage all of the different user names and passwords required by the many Web sites they frequently visit. Wouldn't it be better if there were a simple and secure way to log on to all Web content? … OpenID, as it's called, is attracting serious attention from Microsoft, AOL, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc … Major issuers include MyOpenID.com, a Web site run by JanRain Inc., an open-source developer and designer of OpenID software based in Portland, Ore.
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When MySpace announced in July that it was adopting OpenID, supporters of the universal sign-on system hurrahed … The number of "OpenID-enabled users" passed half a billion with the MySpace addition, says Bill Washburn, executive director of the OpenID Foundation.
Interview with JanRain on OpenID
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Our goal is to be the platform provider of choice for OpenID implementations, for the end user, the OpenID provider, and the web sites that are accepting OpenIDs for registration and login…We have a property called MyOpenID.com, which is a hosted ASP service where you can come and get an OpenID. We also offer services to web site operators to enable their web sites for OpenID and to create better, more intuitive login user experiences.
START ME UP: Meet some of the coolest startups running around Silicon Forest today
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JanRain is perhaps the leading developer in the growing world of OpenID, a service that lets you use a single ID to log in at multiple sites across the web. The issue of identity security has always been a big deal; different sites require different IDs, but each of those IDs are only as secure as the weakest place you use them. But if you’ve signed up at an OpenID hosting service like JanRain, the login process at any website is conducted between JanRain and the site.
Demand.OpenID.net: A One Click Call to Action
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OpenID provider JanRain has launched an interesting project called Demand OpenID, which lets users click a bookmarklet whenever they are on a website in which they want to request OpenID support.
JanRain Taps Phone to Deliver Two-Factor Authentication
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JanRain and Positive Networks introduced CallVerifID, an extension to JanRain's myOpenID, which anyone can get for free, that makes the telephone an integral part of secure sign-on…Multi-factor authentication, which is more secure than a simple user name and password, includes something you are, something you have and something you know. With JanRain's two-factor system, the telephone becomes the "something you have."
The Password that Calls You: CallVerifID
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JanRain, which makes the clever multi-service OpenID login box, OpenID Selector, is expected to announce a security improvement for its own MyOpenID service. The new system, CallVerifID, uses your mobile phone to perform an extra security measure before it will authenticate you on its service….The addition of the phone as a new security factor means that even if someone steals your password, they won't be able to get into your OpenID-protected accounts unless they also have access to your phone.
OpenID Getting More Usable, a Tiny Bit at a Time
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JanRain’s OpenID Selector makes it much easier for users to understand OpenID logins … It shows a list of OpenID providers and lets users click on the one they know they have an ID with. Then the user logs into their provider, and the site using the widget authenticates against it.
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A new leader and adoption of its technology by some Internet heavyweights could help JanRain Inc. land $6 million in venture investment … OpenID allows anyone to create a single login name and password that can be used at any Web site that accepts such identities. Yahoo Inc. is the latest company to accept and enable OpenID, adding its 248 million registered users to the 120 million who already use OpenIDs to log on to Web sites.
Yahoo Backs OpenID Single Sign-on System
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Another partner Yahoo has worked with on the OpenID system is JanRain, and its founder and vice president of engineering Larry Drebes sees the support Yahoo is giving to OpenID as beneficial to an easier to use Web future.
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Proponents of OpenID, including the company JanRain, believe that we’re near to the inflection point as far as OpenID is concerned – the moment when it passes from being a niche solution, to something with unstoppable momentum.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave OpenID some juice when he announced in February that Microsoft would be working with the project leaders – including JanRain – to integrate it with CardSpace … "With Microsoft onboard, you're going to see adoption picking up speed," predicts Larry Drebes, founder and VP of engineering at Portland, Ore.-based JanRain. Drebes' company has been something of a driving force behind the OpenID spec. To date, JanRain has developed the libraries and tools deployed by 90 percent of the OpenID ecosystem.
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Yesterday I spoke with Larry Drebes of JanRain, a startup that’s contributed a lot to the OpenID effort … OpenID is getting a new kickstart. After around 18 months of work, the 2.0 spec is being locked down and launched. According to Drebes, the main differences in version 2.0 are that it has beefed up security and added Identifier recycling and directed identity.
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Yesterday I spoke with Larry Drebes of JanRain, a startup that’s contributed a lot to the OpenID effort … OpenID is getting a new kickstart. After around 18 months of work, the 2.0 spec is being locked down and launched. According to Drebes, the main differences in version 2.0 are that it has beefed up security and added Identifier recycling and directed identity.
MyOpenID.com Launches Secure Authentication, Helps Prevent Phishing
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JanRain, Inc. today launched a new secure authentication technology that will make using your OpenID account easier and more secure … This technology is quickly and painlessly installed in your web browser and will significantly reduce your chances of successfully being phished. The end result is no more passwords and no more opportunities for would-be scammers to phish your information through bogus sites.
JanRain Lands High-Profile CTO
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Portland startup JanRain has hired Verisign's Michael Graves to be JanRain's new chief technology officer … JanRain is one of Oregon's most promising open source startups. It makes technology for an online standard called OpenID that is seeking to create universal logins and passwords that work across many Web sites.
Technology Cuts Down on Web Registrations
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OpenID providers, including JanRain and VeriSign, allow consumers to establish an OpenID identifier in the form of a personalized web address … The emerging technology could be the answer to a major headache: It lets consumers use the same user name and password for hundreds of websites that require a sign-in.
PBwiki Announces Acquisition of Schtuff, the Popular Wiki Service
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PBwiki, the world’s largest wiki hosting provider, today announced it is acquiring Schtuff, a popular wiki host. Schtuff is built by JanRain, a technology company based in Portland, Oregon … JanRain announced the sale to focus on its core of identity services.
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JanRain (a software company providing OpenID solutions, including popular libraries) and other companies are working to promote OpenID adoption … This new open standard for identity exchange on the Internet is picking up support from all over the place, and appears unstoppable in the blogosphere.
