Thanks for the detailed response. How did you find linkedin? I have some friends that used that oauth method and it wasn't as social as say fb or twitter. Would love to hear any comments on how those networks performed for your projects
Integration for it was easy enough, though I have the slight complaint that they don't give me the user's email address as part of the oAuth process, and I can't even get it with an additional request. Since we're automatically reconciling user accounts based on authenticated emails, this makes LinkedIn kind of the odd man out.
As far as traction, LinkedIn represents approximately 30-35% of our users who are authenticating via oAuth, which is only about about 32% of total users. So, one out of three users logs in with oAuth (vs. traditional username/password auth), and of those, 2 out of three prefer Google to LinkedIn -- and this is on our Enterprisey product.
In other side projects, LinkedIn usage is far less. Perhaps one out of 15 users prefer it to Facebook / Google / Twitter, and it's probably worth noting that in the consumer-based apps (games and the like), users prefer oAuth 3 to 1.
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Thanks for the detailed response. How did you find linkedin? I have some friends that used that oauth method and it wasn't as social as say fb or twitter. Would love to hear any comments on how those networks performed for your projects
Re: LinkedIn
Integration for it was easy enough, though I have the slight complaint that they don't give me the user's email address as part of the oAuth process, and I can't even get it with an additional request. Since we're automatically reconciling user accounts based on authenticated emails, this makes LinkedIn kind of the odd man out.
As far as traction, LinkedIn represents approximately 30-35% of our users who are authenticating via oAuth, which is only about about 32% of total users. So, one out of three users logs in with oAuth (vs. traditional username/password auth), and of those, 2 out of three prefer Google to LinkedIn -- and this is on our Enterprisey product.
In other side projects, LinkedIn usage is far less. Perhaps one out of 15 users prefer it to Facebook / Google / Twitter, and it's probably worth noting that in the consumer-based apps (games and the like), users prefer oAuth 3 to 1.