Comments on: Kickapps Embraces Facebook Connect And OpenID

By: Raj Anand

Raj Anand — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:36:11 +0000

Good move Kickapps! I have a feeling Facebook connect might emerge as the winner. Given the usability but would love to check out OpenID’s fight back, blogged about it here:

http://blog.kwi...cebook-connect/

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By: Mani Honigstein

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:22:40 +0000

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By: Mani Honigstein

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:22:02 +0000

Great post. Interesting read

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Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Blogging from Tahoe ‘09 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:42:07 +0000

[...] Congrats to Kickapps for doing the right thing and supporting OpenID and Facebook Connect! Lets see that’s almost three years to the day when I first told you to do that! [...]

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:25:43 +0000

White label means you can completely brand every facet of the user experience for your community, including custom video players and widgets.

By: Alison B. Lowndes

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:09:21 +0000

What exactly is “white label” .. ?

By: Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:39:58 +0000

Why does it not help with business networks? It takes away the very first obstacle to anyone joining such networks, which is the pain of registration. Google Contacts has already shown how easy it is to take Plaxo contacts between networks. LinkedIn isn’t playing ball but we have a tool on our site which enables your LinkedIn contacts to be found and connected to or invited to join if they are not already members.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

By: Nandakumar

Nandakumar — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:07:31 +0000

KickApps rocks, But these connects already done few months ago by their competitor Pluck.

By connecting and collecting profiles from my common social network will much better instead of type again.

Ofcourse my facebook connects not going to help me when im trying to login Business network.

We have developed our own social framework application http://ndot.in/products.php

thanks,

Nandakumar.

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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:42:21 +0000

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By: Adriana

Adriana — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:30:57 +0000

Congrats KickApps! Impressed by your willingness to experiment and be innovative.

By: Mark Carras

Mark Carras — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:46:16 +0000

Open ID is not too open or user friendly if you have 20 different versions. I have avoided it myself because I have yet to see any way that it makes things more secure. If anything it makes things less secure. The more people try to sing it’s praises, the more I want to stay away from it.

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ニッチSNSのKickapps、Facebook ConnectとOpenIDを採用 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:24:54 +0000

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By: Adisa McKenzie

Adisa McKenzie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:05:22 +0000

The new additions to KickApps are great. I am hoping they more toward friend connect soon. but the point system it the S**t.

By: fb713265422

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:49:10 +0000

Oh, BTW, I am work at KickApps. Sorry, didn’t note that in my earlier comment.

By: jim Bob

jim Bob — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:30:33 +0000

Yup. My company has token social networking features that supplement what we charge users for. Its an add-on to our business model.

What was FB’s business model again? Oh, right, advertising.

By: Brian G

Brian G — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:27:28 +0000

haha, I just noticed your name “Facebook user” as I try to address my reply to you. You have an excellent point.

By: Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:25:46 +0000

This guy is right. Niche networks will always appeal to special interests or specific needs better than the mainstream networks, but the effort is in finding such niche networks and then having to sign in and set up a friends list from scratch. OpenID and Facebook Connect making using those networks really easy, because you can sign in using an existing identity AND port your existing contacts over. You can also send details of your activity on those sites back to, say, Facebook for everyone to see.

By the way, anyone wanting to incorporate this functionality into their own website (if not KickApps based) should check out JanRain’s RPX.

We plan to include it within our network for sales leads and business referrals within the month.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

By: fb713265422

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:15:38 +0000

Thanks for your interest in this story.

I think you’re missing the point however with, “there is no use competing with the viral social networking power of Facebook and MySpace.” Quite the contrary. In people’s lives, niche social sites are very complementary to Facebook & MySpace. Think of the way you relate to a daily newspaper (USA Today-Facebook/MySpace) and magazines you might read (Men’s Health or GQ–niche social websites).

Being able to syndicate and share activity on these niche websites is very powerful to a niche publisher. Letting my FB or MS social graph know that I’ve uploaded a video or commented on an article, thus driving traffic back, is a very valuable traffic driver.

Watch as I sign into TechCrunch w/my Facebook account…