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Google's 'Hybrid Onboarding' Aims to Cut Down on Passwords

Source: AppScout

Nov 03, 2009

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Want to simplify the process of creating online accounts? Google on Tuesday announced that it has finalized a two-step log-in process that lets you use your Google information to set up accounts on other Web sites.

At this point, if you get a Gmail message inviting you to Facebook, that link will take you to the social networking site and require you to set up an account. Google, however, has developed a process by which users who click on that link will be given the option to set up a Facebook account using their Google account information in two steps.

Google has been working on this process, dubbed hybrid onboarding, with Facebook and Plaxo in an effort to cut down on the number of passwords people have to use across the Web. The technique leverages a number of Internet standards, including OpenID, OAuth and Portable Contacts. Plaxo showed off the results of a trial effort in early 2009, but now the log-in option is available to all Web site owners, Google said.

"All of these hybrid onboarding techniques are based on industry standards that both Google and Y

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