Google just launched prizes.org • Hacker News Board

tuhin wrote: post #18

Is 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.

It feels to me that it's more of trying to show independence of Slide team from Google.

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by adora » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 3:16 PM UTC

modernerd wrote: post #45

nikcub wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

re: 4, that is because of the namespace collision between fb and tw. ie. if I signin with my fb username and then somebody signs in with a tw account with the same username

But why not just use OAuth/Facebook Connect to both sign up and log in to the service (where username collision makes no difference)? Why require a username and password in addition?

It's really in case Facebook "screws them" -- in that scenario, nobody is tied to the Facebook login and can still access the site. Allowing them to Facebook Connect now lets them at least take advantage of viral "things" -- e.g. a wall post is posted when you sign up.

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by dskhatri » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 3:52 PM UTC

modernerd wrote: post #21

Screenshot when logged in: https://img.skitch.com/20110704-j2fdjyed367jcehytnqfp5mea4.p... Initial thoughts and observations: 1. It's 'Stack Overflow for the common (wo)man' with cash instead of reputation. 2. Alternative pitch: "99designs meets Yahoo Answers." 3. The top prize available at the moment awards $50. 4. The sign-up process could be a lot better. Prompting sign-up via twitter/Facebook, then prompting for…

You don't need to log in: http://prizes.org/home

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by code_duck » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #20

code_duck wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I didn't even have a Google profile until three days ago. I hadn't entered my full name, had not used the gmail to sign up for anything, have only exchanged 2 emails.

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Post by glenngillen » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 4:51 PM UTC

chrisrogers wrote: post #36

modernerd wrote: post #21

Screenshot when logged in: https://img.skitch.com/20110704-j2fdjyed367jcehytnqfp5mea4.p... Initial thoughts and observations: 1. It's 'Stack Overflow for the common (wo)man' with cash instead of reputation. 2. Alternative pitch: "99designs meets Yahoo Answers." 3. The top prize available at the moment awards $50. 4. The sign-up process could be a lot better. Prompting sign-up via twitter/Facebook, then prompting for…

> 7. I'm not yet convinced that there's a huge market for paid responses when the Stack Exchange network and Quora both offer large userbases who give their time to answer questions for free. Perhaps it is this model they are trying to defeat. If an answerer has the opportunity to earn real money for their time, it might be theorized that they would opt for that over the karma systems. It makes sense for a greater br…

Didn't they try a similar theory with Knol vs. Wikipedia?

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Post by pbreit » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 5:05 PM UTC

yaix wrote: post #38

That's from Google? Nah. Anybody had a look at the end of the source, they used a copy-paste code for the Analytics but forgot to actually put in their own GA number. >> var _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']];

"Prizes.org is offered by Slide (part of Google Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, USA)."