Robert Scoble recently sat down for a lively talk with our founder, Larry Drebes about the Janrain User Management Platform. We love that Robert tells developers that “they need to consider Janrain for their user management system” because in essence, we’ve done all the work so that they can focus on changing the world with their core competencies. Plus Robert shares his own frustrations with setting up a new account at websites as the two discuss the usefulness of social login.
At Janrain we like to use the right tool for the right job. The realm of social networking presents many challenges for implementers. There are components living in browsers, user interfaces, databases, and many web server applications. Different programming languages offer different strengths and weaknesses in each of these areas. We have found that functional programming offers significant advantages in the design and implementation of web servers. At Janrain we have been using the purely functional language Haskell, and the hybrid functional and object oriented language Scala as part of our toolbox for web servers.
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts by Kevin Long, Janrain Technical Product Manager, to introduce the new Janrain Engage social login widget and provide detail on how to use the new enhancements. Read other posts within the Janrain Technical series.
Previous posts covered the expanded support for mobile devices, new customization features, and performance. Today we’ll focus on using the client side javascript api and how to connect it to analytics engines.
This post is written by Allen Tom (@atom), Janrain Identity Architect. Allen recently joined the Janrain team and also serves as OpenID Foundation Director.
Last week, Team Janrain headed to Mountain View, CA to define and build the next generation of Internet Identity with industry leaders at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). Over the years, IIW has been the premiere event where technologists from around the web roll up their sleeves to work on making Internet Identity portable, interoperable, and secure.
One of the biggest topics at IIW was OpenID Connect, which is the standard identity interface for OAuth 2.0. OpenID Connect standardizes on the the same wildly successful design pattern that has been deployed by top Identity Providers including Facebook and Twitter. Not only is OpenID Connect far easier to implement relative to previous versions of OpenID, it enables powerful new use cases for attribute brokering and data sharing.
It’s been a great week around here that kicked off with our sponsorship of the Pivot Conference in NY where Jamie, Karen and Craig had great conversations with marketers leading the charge in social media. The last few days, several Janrain technologists participated in the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) and showed the use of the next generation of the OpenID protocol, OpenID Connect in its Identity Services product. And now we’re closing out the week with an exciting announcement: Allen Tom, former principal architect and security lead for Yahoo’s Membership Platform has joined Janrain.
As Android continues to scoop market share from RIM and Nokia, screaming up to ~48% market share globally, another tablet is poised to hit the retail shelves this holiday season that will extend the platform's reach. Amazon's Kindle Fire will be sold at a price point that will bring apps like Angry Birds, streaming video, and eBooks into even more households.
Whether you are a Kindle enthusiast or not, it is easy to see that the price will be very appealing to those unwilling or unable to shell out $500 or more for an iPad. While not seen as a heads on threat to Apple, Amazon is likely to capitalize on some niche market segments, like college students. For app developers and marketers alike, Android's ongoing growth and additions of new devices further cements the importance of building apps for the platform.
More than 3,000 people were on hand Wednesday in San Francisco to see the official unveiling of X.commerce at the Innovate Developer Conference. Now in its third year, Innovate has evolved quickly from a developer conference put on by eBay’s PayPal unit to a broader event featuring X.commerce, which unifies the commerce tools and technology platforms of eBay, PayPal, Magento, Milo and other eBay companies for developers and merchants.
Day One brought plenty of announcements from PayPal and Janrain...
Recently I had the pleasure of attending the first annual PuppetConf, put on by our local friends at PuppetLabs here in Portland. The speakers were top notch as expected, representing companies such as Google, Facebook, VMWare, Amazon, etc... and of course Janrain. Most of the talks were presented as “here is how we use Puppet at our company”, which was great and actually surprising to hear the different ways people use Puppet to make their lives easier and more efficient.
Facebook’s announcements at f8 yesterday upped the ante in the race to control how users will apply their online identities to discover and share content. The new features launched by Facebook have taken direct aim at Google and Twitter.
Earlier this week we participated in the OpenID Connect Summit at the Microsoft Research Center in Mountain View. The event brought together identity experts across the industry for a formal checkpoint to discuss the OpenID Connect specifications and future interoperability.
Key aspects of OpenID Connect are simplicity and usability. By building upon the adoption of the OAuth 2.0 protocol and by applying developer feedback to iterate on Connect’s specifications, the spec’s contributors have assembled a standards framework that can be adopted across the industry. Users will benefit from more intuitive interactions and discoverability. OpenID Connect also includes support for browser-based, mobile, and javascript clients, recognizing that users lead more connected lives.
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Robert Scoble recently sat down for a lively talk with our founder, Larry Drebes about the Janrain User Management Platform. We love that Robert tells developers that “they need to consider Janrain for their user management system” because in essence, we’ve done all the work so that they can focus on changing the world with their core competencies. Plus Robert shares his own frustrations with setting up a new account at websites as the two discuss the usefulness of social login.
At Janrain we like to use the right tool for the right job. The realm of social networking presents many challenges for implementers. There are components living in browsers, user interfaces, databases, and many web server applications. Different programming languages offer different strengths and weaknesses in each of these areas. We have found that functional programming offers significant advantages in the design and implementation of web servers. At Janrain we have been using the purely functional language 
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It’s been a great week around here that kicked off with our sponsorship of the Pivot Conference in NY where Jamie, Karen and Craig had great conversations with marketers leading the charge in social media. The last few days, several Janrain technologists participated in the 
As Android continues to 
More than 3,000 people were on hand Wednesday in San Francisco to see the official unveiling of X.commerce at the 
Facebook’s announcements at f8 yesterday upped the ante in the race to control how users will apply their online identities to discover and share content. The new features launched by Facebook have taken direct aim at Google and Twitter.
