ShareThis Speeds Sharing with FastShare

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:02:00 GMT

Popular social sharing widget provider ShareThis is rolling out a redesigned version and a brand new feature in FastShare which lets users spend more time sharing and less time logging in to social networks/services.

Thanks to support for OAuth (an open standard which allows users to share private details stored on one site with another site without having to re-validate credentials – typically username and password), ShareThis is enabling visitors logged in to any of the sites within its publisher network to automatically see their FastShare options.

Web masters that have implemented current ShareThis widget (using buttons.js code) will be able to access FastShare and the new design elements within 48 hours.

Ping Identity Streamlines Authentication

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:30:00 GMT

Ping Identity released PingFederate released a solution this week dubbed Cloud Identity Connectors which enables organizations to rely on cloud services providers and social networking sites for third-party user authentication. Ping Identity is a rather significant player in the market, securing 40 of the Fortune 100 using secure, open, standards like SAML, OpenID and OAuth.

The Ping Identity "Connectors" enable businesses to allow sign-on through (and connect with) six of the largest cloud service and social network sites, including Google (and other OpenID 2.0 providers), Salesforce and Facebook.

In a report from Blue Research released in February 2011, titled "Consumer Perceptions of Online Registration and Social Sign-In", 75 percent of line shoppers stated they may leave or note use a site that requires registration. When you successfully remove the barriers (in this case user registration) the result is not only a better user experience on the whole but higher user adoption, usage and purchase rates.

“The registration process is a source of frustration for consumers online – they are just as likely to leave a site as they are to spend the time to create a new identity profile. To increase registration and purchase rates, online businesses need to make access easier, without compromising security,” said Roger Oberg, Vice President of Marketing for Ping Identity. “PingFederate Cloud Identity Connectors provide our customers with ways to simply and securely authenticate their users into their Web properties by leveraging LinkedIn and other popular social networking services.”

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ShareThis Speeds Sharing with FastShare

Ping Identity Streamlines Authentication