blog: A startup to look at: Clickpass.com
Startups launch left and right (Hell I plan to launch my own in the next few months!) but a lot of them don’t stick out. Clickpass.com is one of those that sticks out for me, but has been kind of flying under the radar lately.Clickpass allows you to use a single login for all your sites. It’s basically OpenID, but they’ve done it right and have actually made OpenID very easy to use. Even a few of my friends who could never “get” OpenID because it was just a hassle to work with, loved ClickPass.
So far with Clickpass, I am only using it on HackerNews which makes it kind of pointless for me as I am still having to log in, but currently no other sites I frequently use Clickpass, which is one downfall of it. Adoption for it is slow, but hopefully it picks up.
What’s great about Clickpass is once I’m logged in, all I have to do is click the “Clickpass Enter” button on any supported site and I will be logged in, no need to retype information. Additionally, I can mange my details and avatar straight from Clickpass without having to deal with multiple sites.
Unfortunately, as I mentioned above the adoption is slow. Despite a story on TechCrunch and some initial media, it’s now kind of flying under the radar. I haven’t seen any sites added to the supported sites list in the past few weeks and I hope that they get some more adopters.
Needless to say, I know when I launch my own user-oriented site, I will be supporting Clickpass. It makes sense from a user standpoint and as long as the user isn’t confused, which Clickpass does very well in not doing, then it works very well.
Either way, check out Clickpass.com and see what they have to offer. You can also integrate it into your own blog (I will when I actually update to Wordpress 2.5)!