"This is pretty cool. Would be good to be able to make private ranked indexes so that I can map out my competitors without the world knowing that i am watching them :)" - Immad Akhund
"What is "true R" vs the "un-satiated acquisition of wealth". I do see your point but most people that do R outside the government and academic organisations do it for acquisition of wealth and it would seem pointless for them to do it if it doesn't give them wealth." - Immad Akhund
"Direct marketing. Good point, especially the emailing point, which although is often spammy to most its still used effectively by people." - Immad Akhund
"I saw affiliate marketing sitting very much in the SEM and non-organic traffice section. But I see what you mean, should have given it an explicit mention. Thanks" - Immad Akhund
"Hi Rob,
<OpenID directory>/complete_openid_login - can be any real path on your server. The complete_openid_login is the second leg of the OpenID protocol. When you instigate OpenID login you redirect the user to a URL on the OpenID providers server and you tell the OpenID provider to redirect the user back to a path on your server when the user is finished.
Therefore when a user goes to complete_openid_login you call your OpenID library to check whether the user has been authenticated or not and what their authenticated OpenID URL is.
Hope that clears up some of the confusion. Let us know if we can help in any other way,
Immad" - Immad Akhund
"I love the lyrics on this "Dress smart like a London boy". i can really relate to them, when are you going to take me to LA and New York Daniel?" - Immad Akhund
"Thanks Shaon. if you get a chance to visit SV or other tech-entreprenuerial hub you shoud def take it (assuming you are doing something on the web).
I will try to post more of the things i have learnt through the process. If you have a specific question that I could help you with, feel free to send me an email. They might help me come up with posts :)." - Immad Akhund
"Hi,
Good point, that button at the top should be the same as in the developer section. I will correct that. If you would like to use the same button as login if you simply follow the steps above but remove the part that says "mode=connect" it will show up as the normal Clickpass Enter button. Hope that makes sense.
I see the issue with the OpenID selector dropdown on the connect button. It is supposed to work. There is no reason why at connection the user shouldn't use their OpenID.
Will fix those issues asap. Thanks for your comment,
Immad" - Immad Akhund
"Hi Justindz,
The nonce-protection referred to here is specific to the connect button; this is at stage 3 at the bottom when you are creating the site through clickpass.com/developer.
The nonce is necessary to stop cross site forgery attacks where someone could set the users OpenID at a site without his/her consent.
It is fairly easy to setup, basically you create a user-specific nonce (a random number), store the nonce in the user's session and then pass it to the callback URL that you can see used in the connect button (it is the override_openid_callback_url parameter). When you get a connection request check whether the nonce is correct before proceeding.
Many people opt initially to not show a connect button and add it in later to the user account page. It is very much an additional usability feature.
- Hope that helps, Immad" - Immad Akhund
"Matt aren't you missing Matt Maroon's (obvious) point that Xobni could not sell even if the founders wanted to. Xobni did a VC round at around $10m post, how could they sell for only $20m?
Either way, I wouldn't consider them that ballsy, if you have done a $5m round and are doing really well by many measure why would you settle for a $20m exit? I am sure they pay themselves more than enough to live happily." - Immad Akhund
"Hi, Although we don't document it (to keep things simple). You can pass signup_only=true to the process_openid_registration URL. So that it will not ask for the users merge details. For example, here is the normal Disqus process_openid_registration page: http://www.clickpass.com/proce...... nand here it is with signup_only=true <a href="http://www.clickpass.com/proce...">http://www.clickpass.com/proce...... We are working on ways to remove the Clickpass based merge process. It is the most user friendly way of doing it, and easiest for website owners to implement..." - Immad Akhund
"Hi,
Although we don't document it (to keep things simple). You can pass signup_only=true to the process_openid_registration URL. So that it will not ask for the users merge details. For example, here is the normal Disqus process_openid_registration page:
http://www.clickpass.com/proce......" - Immad Akhund
"Hi,
Thanks for you feedback. Both good suggestions, I will implement the tab thing straight away and see what we can come up with for the "all on one" page." - Immad Akhund
"Yep, completely agree with the public point. Also I can see the custom OpenID dropdown can be confusing, we have a limited space to work with, hopefully we can re-jig a few things to make that clearer in the future." - Immad Akhund
"Hi Luke, team@clickpass.com is good. I am going to look into that bug, I am not sure if we tested on wordpress 2.5, it was working on a few versions though. Thanks for the heads up." - Immad Akhund
"Hi Adam,
Clicking on the clickpass button takes you to clickpass where you can signup and get an OpenID from us. If you would like to use your own openid you can use the OpenID icon. Once you signup to Clickpass you can associate your own OpenID to your Disqus account and get the best of both worlds. Hope that clarifies things," - Immad Akhund
"If you launch early, you can start earlier on the process of acquiring users. Don't launch with a crappy product -- launch as soon as what you have is better than what is out there. But don't wait for a perfect product -- launch as early as you can, get user feedback, and keep improving the product." - Paul Buchheit
Look at the lower graphs. Who says mainstream media is dead. If anything, mainstream media is the enabler of new media. - Omar Ismail
it isn't dead, but it is dying. it isn't the influence that is the measure of its lifespan, but their ledgers. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Looking at those graphs, my conclusion is actually press doesn't matter, it creates a curiosity pop that quickly goes to zero. What matters seems to be organic growth. Somewhere around July '07, users started sticking, the baseline slope became nonzero, and traffic took off. I guess press pops are good for giving you feedback early on, though. - ⓞnor
Love David's openess. Really interesting graphs - Immad Akhund
where is the friendfeed's various logos to choose from for pasting on blogs? - huixing
slope became nonzero? you mean right after the Time article? Also, why are you ignoring the massive step increase that's precisely synchronized with the Newsweek article? - j1m
It seems hard to believe that the Time article created a long-term positive trend (when lots of previous press had not). The Newsweek step function, maybe could be something. I guess it boils down to what they say: make a product people will actually stick to, and then get some press to start the exponential accumulation rolling. - ⓞnor
The newsweek change is pretty big and crisp, I'm not sure you can explain it away. Poisson model, one process/user, probability of a return-to-site event determined by a stickiness function? - j1m
I'll buy that, plus some probability of word-of-mouth spreading. This is why you really want that "where did you hear about us" survey question. - ⓞnor
"wow, that is off-topic. Yes I did. But, gotto say I don't remember many names/faces from when i was younger than 9 :). My Email is immad ( at ) akhund d0T net, email me." - Immad Akhund
"You got me there. I have heard similar statements but didn't investigate. Let me see what i can find..
http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar...... says
"by some accounts, about 3 billion mobile phone users in the world.". Well that doesn't justify the statement. I will make a correction. Thanks" - Immad Akhund
