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When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

SoCal CTO

In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Example What do I mean? If you have an account on any of those systems, you can click the relevant button.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Will you also have a separate login?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Will you also have a separate login?

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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

Both Sides of the Table

Being able to leverage mobile contacts on your phone gave them independence from Facebook while many other people were doing anything they could to oAuth in FB users. It’s a Hobbesian calculation.

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Registration Form Design with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Authentication

SoCal CTO

Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications.

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Tools I use: Vimcal

Eric Friedman

I tend to get sucked into the productivity software rabbit hole pretty easily, but in this case the switching costs were very low (OAuth with calendars) and the savings was very high (instant keyboard shortcut time savings).

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Why Twitter’s API Changes Screws Startups – And Twitter

YoungUpstarts

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

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