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HN was using Clickpass (YC Summer 07), which was acquired and shuttered by Janrain early last year. Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickp
by callahad 13y ago
HN was using Clickpass (YC Summer 07), which was acquired and shuttered by Janrain early last year. Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page.
If I recall correctly, Clickpass was a centralized OpenID proxy, whereas Persona is trying to bootstrap a fully decentralized protocol. We don't want to even be able to track you. :)
[Edit: Corrected YC cohort. Thanks wamatt!]
- wamatt 13y agoI believe Clickpass was YC '07. Falling short of a Series A raise, Yola/Synthasite acquired them in 2008 [1] Then a few years later (2012), Yola sold the IP and users to Janrain [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402973 [2] http://janrain.com/clickpass-acquired-by-janrain/ http://janrain.com/clickpass-acquired-by-janrain/ EDIT: my pleasure callahad :)
- baha_man 13y ago"Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page." Where? I can't see it.
- callahad 13y agoThe button was removed a few hours ago: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/192501/remove-obsolete-clickpass-login-option http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/192501/remove-obsole...