If you’re like 87% of people, you have likely come across the option to register at a website using one of your existing social network or email identities. This is known as social login, a technology that Janrain pioneered to solve the challenge websites have faced when acquiring users...
If you were to take a stroll down the bright and vivacious hallways at Janrain to ask any of our employees to share their perspective about the chief priority for our company, the answer would be universally consistent. At Janrain, the success of our customers is our top priority....
The introduction of Google+ in 2011 has amplified a diverse and rapidly evolving social networking landscape. With more than 500 million members and a seamless integration with popular Google services such as Gmail, Android, Google Calendar, YouTube, Google+ has rapidly become one of the leading social networks on the web. That’s...
For as long as I can remember growing up here, Portland has been known for a small handful of things: beer, coffee, mopey indie rock, bikes, soul-crushing weather. Added to that list in the past few years have been Portlandia, the Timbers Army, Voodoo Doughnut, and, most importantly (IMHO), food carts. Food carts have become [...]
In a metropolitan city where our GDP growth rate is outpacing our population growth primarily thanks to our tech sector and the continual birth and growth of rock star startups, one might assume that it’s a dog-eat-dog world of fighting over talent, resources and the spotlight. But not so, in Portland. Our technology community is [...]
If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need to be sold on using Haskell or Postgres, so I’ll cut to the chase. Instead of telling you why both are astonishingly and almost painfully amazing—and here at Janrain we use Haskell, the Snap web framework, and PostgreSQL (as well as the PostgreSQL Simple module itself) to [...]