Immad Akhund - Discussion

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

August 11 at 3:59 pm - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies!

August 7 at 4:28 pm - Link

"Direct marketing. Good point, especially the emailing point, which although is often spammy to most its still used effectively by people." - Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies!

August 6 at 6:29 pm - Link

"Are you Andrew Chen? :P" - Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies!

August 6 at 4:55 pm - Link

"That is what i meant by "non-organic traffic". But since that is maybe not clear enough I have changed it. Thanks" - Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies!

August 6 at 4:02 pm - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Log users in

July 1 at 10:36 am - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: obscurely famous

June 30 at 8:58 am - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a story on Digg

Posterous: New Blogging Site - Super Easy to Use

June 28 at 5:59 pm - Link

"Wow, awesome idea" - Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: The entrepreneurial ladder

June 27 at 2:10 pm - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Button - connection

June 4 at 6:27 pm - Link

"Both issues are now resolved! Thanks cyu" - Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Button - connection

June 4 at 3:40 pm - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Button - connection

May 8 at 7:33 am - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

May 7 at 2:11 pm - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: The entrepreneurial ladder

April 23 at 10:30 am - Link

"Hi Ewan, amusing comment. Please get in touch immad (at) clickpass d0t com." - Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Merge accounts

April 15 at 2:37 am - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Merge accounts

April 15 at 2:34 am - Link

"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

Paul Buchheit favorited a video on YouTube

Peter Nixey, Immad Akhund - Clickpass - HyveUp

March 25 at 3:14 pm - Link

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michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“http://tinyurl.com/3xe6eq "2am:...Mike Arrington calls. We talk for almost two hours about Clickpass"”

March 27 at 11:34 am - Link

Immad Akhund, Paul Buchheit, mathew ingram and John McCrea liked this

And Joseph's mirror account of the story: http://josephsmarr.com/2008/03... - John McCrea

I added just a little to the story, too: http://therealmccrea.wordpress... - John McCrea

Paul Buchheit favorited a video on YouTube

Office Space - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta

March 27 at 7:32 am - Link

Bryan Tsai, sirish, Igor Poltavskiy, Ian and 20 other people liked this

I think I like the scene where they were pounding on the printer better. - April Buchheit

that movie rocks! - (jeff)isageek

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All the Android guys watched this together the week before we went to Google. - Chris White

Did it inspire you to go to Google, or make you question the decision? Historically, there is a correlation between my watching this movie and soon quitting my job. - Paul Buchheit

Well, we kind of did quit our jobs, and got slightly different ones at Google, but it was all good. :) Did you watch this before you left Google? - Chris White

Yes, and also before quitting Intel to join Google back in '99 (right after Office Space was released). - Paul Buchheit

if you're on the fence about leaving a job, watching office space definitely makes you lean towards leaving. it's such a funny movie, but can be quite sad if you're in a bad job or a have a lumbergh for a boss. - David Vasileff

I watched it at least twice during my leave, along with another movie I won't mention that helped me make up my mind. - Kevin Fox

My favorite scene is the gridlock sequence in the beginning, where the skinny white guy is gangsta rappin - Thomas Gundersen

Thomas, I love that scene too. Kevin, now we're all suppose to guess? Brazil? - Chris White

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Installing Clickpass

March 24 at 10:32 am - Link

"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

Justin Kan posted a message on Twitter

“A guy on JTV is trying to grow a plant in his arm: www.justin.tv/humanlabrat”

March 14 at 11:22 am - Link

Chris White, Jatin, Immad Akhund and Paul Buchheit liked this

lol - Immad Akhund

http://www.justin.tv/humanlabr... - Paul Buchheit

Alexis Ohanian posted an entry on OMG Babies! Cute baby-anything photos and videos from around the Web

Baby donkey is happy to see you

March 14 at 1:18 pm - Link

Immad Akhund liked this

Bret Taylor shared an item on Google Reader

Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup for Spring 2008

March 14 at 2:06 pm - Link

Karl Rosaen, Ros, kartik vaithyanathan, Immad Akhund and 3 other people liked this

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

March 11 at 12:57 pm - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

March 11 at 12:56 pm - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

March 11 at 11:58 am - Link

"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

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

March 11 at 11:05 am - Link

"Awesome!!!!" - Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Heroku | API and External Git Access

March 4 at 1:46 pm - Link

"wow, been waiting for this for a long time. I can't do much without vi. Nice" - Immad Akhund

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Official FriendFeed merchandise. Accept no substitutions. Those people are not your real friends.

February 25 at 9:20 pm - Link

maȥoox, Maryam Ardakani, Immad Akhund, Leandro Koiti Sato and 13 other people liked this

Where's the FriendFeed onesie? Camilla needs new clothes. - April Buchheit

I 100% agree with April. That's why they are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/1... - Louis Gray

I love that there is a dog t-shirt for friendfeed. I can already see all the dogs at Glenbrook in those this year...hahaha. Oh, and Papa Earl will be wearing the apron of course. - Emily Miller

Paul Buchheit posted a link

David Rusenko - The importance of launching early and staying alive

February 26 at 2:22 pm - Link

Kris, Ian, Ryan Mahoski, Jon Emerson and 36 other people liked this

"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

Interesting thoughts. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

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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

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