One of our Cickpass user/developer recently posted a great step-by-step article on how to setup Clickpass using Rails at his blog: YangTheMan.
It’s a great article and always great to see people using Clickpass. If you’ve written anything then just send it in to us. Thanks Yang!
Do you have the ability to architect and build a new web service from scratch? Would you like to be the lead architect in a small, tight team building an identity hub for the next generation of pluggable web applications?
Clickpass is hiring a lead developer and architect to help design and implement our next phase of authentication services. The role will offer you the chance to work under the Clickpass brand but within the very pleasant offices of the company who recently acquired us, SynthaSite.
You will be working in a small team and responsible for all of the software development for the service. Your role will be to help architect how the service should work and then to implement the code across the full stack of technology from server through to browser.
Sys-admin support is already in place and you will have access to any additional support you require including design and UX. You will be liaising directly with the clients this service plugs into.
Clickpass is creating a new, second-generation identity-hub service to allow websites such as SynthaSite to seamlessly plug in embeddable widgets and services that (currently) require a separate user account. This is of particular relevance to our acquirers, SynthaSite but has has also been requested by several other well known web brands.
The role represents a very unusual opportunity to have the impact and autonomy of a startup founder but with the security and salary associated with a very well funded, venture-backed company.
If you’re interested then please email peter.nixey@clickpass.com with your resume and why you feel you would be a good fit for the position:
It’s been an exciting and busy time for all of us over the last few months. After much getting-to-know and mutual bonding, Clickpass has now decided to make the biggest bond a company can make and to become a part of SynthaSite.com.
This is a wonderful opportunity for us and we’re hugely excited to be able to extend the reach of Clickpass’ identity services over the hundreds of thousands of websites that SynthaSite powers. We are going to carry on developing Clickpass as an independent service but will now be doing so not only with a vastly increased distribution channel but also with the addition of a superb team of people.
Since SynthaSite is also based in San Francisco I’m happy to say that we will be staying in the city and are looking forward to continuing to build Clickpass out as part of a bigger network over the coming years.
There’s nothing that we love to see more over here at Clickpass than finding more places we can use our little login button and there are lots. Here are just some…
If there’s one hotter topic than the economy right now it’s the environment and LittleCarbonFeet lets you measure and reduce your impact on it.
If you’ve ever put pen to paper only to find it frozen in place then Skribit might be the site for you. Scribit is a social content suggestion service that makes sure the juices keep flowing.
BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web. Whenever you fill out the “website” field on a comment, BackType will attribute it back to you.
UnLtdWorld is an online platform that connects social entrepreneurs and empowers the way insight and information are shared and exchanged within the social enterprise sector.
Ever have so many ideas that you can’t even begin to do them all? Sudomake is a place where ideas are matched up with heroes and a little bit of magic is created in the process…
Want to learn your Chinese characters? Skritter is a really easy way to do it and you can sign up using Clickpass.
CloudSH is a command line interface to the web that lets you manage your online information using the web, instant messaging and your phone - search bloggable assets and blogs.
Our goal has always been to make it easier to sign up for and log into websites. No more passwords… except… ahem… one.
It bugged us that you still needed a password for Clickpass so we wanted to figure out whether we could get rid of that last one. Could we make Clickpass so easy to use that you didn’t even need to sign up for us?
Well today we’ve done exactly that. You can now sign into Clickpass using your Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft Live ID.
Simply chose the account you want to use, log in and then if you already have a Clickpass, link it up.
Accept all GYMF(!) accounts in one fell swoop
The new update means that supporting Clickpass on your site lets people immediately sign up to you immediately using Google, Yahoo, Microsoft or Facebook.
Install OpenID, drop us in on top and people can register with you without ever needing a password. We’ll do all of the worrying on the back end to make it simple for you and your users on the front.
You can now use your Clickpass at yet more sites.
Scribd.com is an awesome way to upload, share and embed documents into webpages. Millions of people visit Scribd every day and logging in is now one-click simple with Clickpass
NSyght.com is a new UK startup which allows you to search the web and filter the results based on your bookmarks and those of your friends.
Ourdoings.com is a new photo sharing site that lets you upload, share and organise your photos easily.
We’re currently had at work building the Clickpass libraries which will allow our site owners to drop Clickpass quickly and easily into applications. As soon as they’re ready to roll installing Clickpass should become a whole lot easier and will result in yet more places where you can just “click-in”.
Clickpass is coming to Oxford (UK) and we’d love to see you there too.
We’re going to be speaking about our experience on Y-Combinator, living in San Francisco and working with partners servicing millions of users.
If you’re interested in hearing more or you’re interested in coming out to California and working with us either full time or for an internship then we’d love to meet you.
Venue: Said Business School Oxford map
Time: 7pm, Friday 25th April
Facebook event
Wanted to make it but couldn’t? Didn’t want to make it but now curious? Whatever your Clickpass craving, you can now satiate it online with an intro both to Clickpass and to OpenID recorded at the Justin.tv studios in San Francisco:
Putting Clickpass live was easily the most exciting and nerve racking 24 hours in the company’s life so far.
It’s a pretty cool tale which like the best of them gets better still in the retelling so we’ve written up a little of what happened over at thinkvitamin.com.
Joseph Smarr who never fails to amaze me with the speed at which he produces has also written an awesome account of it on the other side of the web as our biggest launch partner at josephsmarr.com.
We’re going to be over in the Justin.tv offices this Thursday, 27th March, talking about OpenID, Clickpass and how to get users onto and into your site quickly.
Schedule (27th March):
Venue:
36 Clyde St. San Francisco, California 94103 (map)
We’ll be talking a little about the technology behind Clickpass, how to install it and a few of the things we’ll be releasing over the coming months.
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