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Re: Amazon Announces Login with Amazon

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Post by jaynos »

walls wrote: post #11
mmastrac wrote: post #2

Alright, but the question is "why would someone want to log in with Amazon"? There's no social network attached to your Amazon account. It seems like it would be an odd choice of identity provider, unless you are a store and already using Amazon's fulfillment services.

> "why would someone want to log in with Amazon"? > There's no social network attached to your Amazon account I think you answered your own question.

This. I avoid accidentally posting some garbage to my facebook wall.

I'll finally start using "Log on with" if I can use Amazon.

Re: Amazon Announces Login with Amazon

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Post by aioprisan »

mmastrac wrote: post #2

Alright, but the question is "why would someone want to log in with Amazon"? There's no social network attached to your Amazon account. It seems like it would be an odd choice of identity provider, unless you are a store and already using Amazon's fulfillment services.

I don't have up to date addresses and payment methods anywhere else, besides PayPal, but I'm far more active on Amazon. That's a great way to turbo charge sales.

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Post by soapdog »

I'd rather use Mozilla Persona based login systems than OAuth based ones. From both a user and a developer point of view, Persona is a very refreshing approach to identity instead of OAuth.

For those wanting to know more about Persona, check out https://login.persona.org/about

also since Persona is from Mozilla, you can see all the code and development and you know that privacy and user safety are number one priority.

Re: Amazon Announces Login with Amazon

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Post by rdl »

criley wrote: post #14
hemancuso wrote: post #7

I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme. That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US…

I agree. I love OAuth idea and the single-sign on flow. I love having one source where I can go and see all of the sites that have my info, and I love being able to rescind my account from that central location. However, I hate that Facebook/Twitter take it a step further with all of their social integration features to the point where many apps assume, by default, that you want to share share share everything you do…

I'd rather use one with an exceptionally good security policy (including account recovery), realtime multi-modal notification, customizable settings (i.e. being able to ip/geo restrict, rate limit, etc.), etc. And maybe do groups, too.

Google Apps for Your Domain could be kind of like this, but isn't. Probably the closest, though.

Maybe someone like Dropbox/Box.Net/AeroFS?

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Post by xsace »

I hate Amazon login where I can't reuse any old passwords as a new one or even as part of the new one.

It makes it just impossible to remember your login when you reset it a few times, because you need to learn a new one.

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Post by loganfrederick »

hemancuso wrote: post #7

I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme. That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US…

The URL is quite common among large corporations and is used by, off the top of my head, Gamestop and NVIDIA.

www.google.com/search?q=corporate-ir.net

Re: Amazon Announces Login with Amazon

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Post by arscan »

hemancuso wrote: post #7

I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme. That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US…

Regarding the URL: Amazon (and just about every public company in the US) outsources the investor relations portion of their site, because it is easier to do so than to integrate the feeds mandated by the SEC on their public site themselves (stock quote, press releases, sec filings, etc). There are 2 major competitors in this space, and the one that Amazon chose has these ugly URLs.

I'm surprised that they haven't made this better since that platform (phoenix) was designed in the mid-2000s. I presume that nobody really cares enough to put money into migrating it to a url scheme that is more sensible... the site exists to satisfy the SEC, and serious investors get their news/stock data from other sources anyhow.

Re: Amazon Announces Login with Amazon

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Post by aioprisan »

aioprisan wrote: post #23
mmastrac wrote: post #2

Alright, but the question is "why would someone want to log in with Amazon"? There's no social network attached to your Amazon account. It seems like it would be an odd choice of identity provider, unless you are a store and already using Amazon's fulfillment services.

I don't have up to date addresses and payment methods anywhere else, besides PayPal, but I'm far more active on Amazon. That's a great way to turbo charge sales.

on second look, it's just a login system, no payment integration https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/lwa/dev/...

Re: Amazon Announces Login with Amazon

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Post by smackfu »

hemancuso wrote: post #7

I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme. That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US…

>I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases.

It seems like it is outsourced investor relations. Funny thing is that if you go to the bare domain, it redirects you to ccbn.com, which doesn't work because CCBN (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network) got bought out in January and apparently killed their domain too. That's pretty shoddy.

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