The best part is how the main way to sign in is with facebook connect.
Google just launched prizes.org
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#12Sigh, I don't want to sign up via Facebook, and I don't want to sign up via Twitter. Goodbye otherwise interesting service.
And after you connect with your FB or Twitter, it asks you again for an email/password combo.
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#13Surely the facebook single sign on option will not continue, that is, unless slide is some sort of joint venture with outside forces?
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#14This is a Google offering that only allows Facebook and Twitter sign-in. That's a bit odd; perhaps it exists for the purpose of getting people to opt their Facebook/Twitter info over to Google?
More evidence for this theory: here's what Prizes asks for via Facebook Connect:
…name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone… Prizes may access my data when I'm not using the application.
The requester dialog only identifies as 'Prizes', not as Google, which seems a bit shifty. The Prizes 'Privacy Policy' says...
We'll treat any such information [from the Social Network Service] under this policy as if you'd given it directly to us.
It also links to the main Google privacy policy, which says (in far more words) that Google can use any info you give them to improve any of their services.
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#15This is a Google offering that only allows Facebook and Twitter sign-in. That's a bit odd; perhaps it exists for the purpose of getting people to opt their Facebook/Twitter info over to Google? More evidence for this theory: here's what Prizes asks for via Facebook Connect: …name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone… Prizes may access my dat…
About a month ago, Google started showing me info here and there referring to people I follow on Twitter. I didn't understand at the time and still don't know how they matched up my Google account to my Twitter account.
The Facebook request details you're quoting are not unusual.
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#16cough Google you own your own single sign on technology cough
But if you sign in with your Google account, how will Prizes (and by extension, every other Google service) get your list of Facebook friends?
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#17Sigh, I don't want to sign up via Facebook, and I don't want to sign up via Twitter. Goodbye otherwise interesting service.
And after you connect with your FB or Twitter, it asks you again for an email/password combo.
... and I am still waiting for a confirmation email, without it I can't sign in.
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#18Is there even the wildest possibility that the entire emphasis of using Fb and Twitter as primary sign up options was intentional especially to get social graphs which might not be easily possible directly via G+?
I know it sounds far fetched, but we are talking about the gateway to the world of social graph that Facebook is highly unlikely to share especially if it was under the direct banner of Google.
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#19loading animation is annoying
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#20This is a Google offering that only allows Facebook and Twitter sign-in. That's a bit odd; perhaps it exists for the purpose of getting people to opt their Facebook/Twitter info over to Google? More evidence for this theory: here's what Prizes asks for via Facebook Connect: …name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone… Prizes may access my dat…
About a month ago, Google started showing me info here and there referring to people I follow on Twitter. I didn't understand at the time and still don't know how they matched up my Google account to my Twitter account. The Facebook request details you're quoting are not unusual.
Is your Twitter linked from your Google profile?