Disqus - Latest Comments for immad

Re: Institutions, Collaboration and Markets

immad — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:15:40 -0000

I can make comments finally.

Yes what you say is very interesting and TED rocks.

And you should post more often. So should I

Re: Front Page

immad — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:22:53 -0000

This is pretty cool. Would be good to be able to make private ranked indexes so that I can map out my competitors without the world knowing that i am watching them :)

Re: Cash cows: got milk?

immad — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:59:59 -0000

What is "true R&D" vs the "un-satiated acquisition of wealth". I do see your point but most people that do R&D outside the government and academic organisations do it for acquisition of wealth and it would seem pointless for them to do it if it doesn't give them wealth.

Re: Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies!

immad — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:28:26 -0000

Direct marketing. Good point, especially the emailing point, which although is often spammy to most its still used effectively by people.

Re: Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies!

immad — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:29:36 -0000

Re: Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies!

immad — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:55:15 -0000

That is what i meant by "non-organic traffic". But since that is maybe not clear enough I have changed it. Thanks

Re: Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies!

immad — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:02:23 -0000

I saw affiliate marketing sitting very much in the SEM and non-organic traffice section. But I see what you mean, should have given it an explicit mention. Thanks

Re: Log users in

immad — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:36:18 -0000

Hi Rob,

<OpenID directory>/complete_openid_login - can be any real path on your server. The complete_openid_login is the second leg of the OpenID protocol. When you instigate OpenID login you redirect the user to a URL on the OpenID providers server and you tell the OpenID provider to redirect the user back to a path on your server when the user is finished.

Therefore when a user goes to complete_openid_login you call your OpenID library to check whether the user has been authenticated or not and what their authenticated OpenID URL is.

Hope that clears up some of the confusion. Let us know if we can help in any other way,

Immad

Re: obscurely famous

immad — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:58:31 -0000

I love the lyrics on this "Dress smart like a London boy". i can really relate to them, when are you going to take me to LA and New York Daniel?

Re: The entrepreneurial ladder

immad — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:10:34 -0000

Thanks Shaon. if you get a chance to visit SV or other tech-entreprenuerial hub you shoud def take it (assuming you are doing something on the web).

I will try to post more of the things i have learnt through the process. If you have a specific question that I could help you with, feel free to send me an email. They might help me come up with posts :).

Re: Button - connection

immad — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:27:42 -0000

Both issues are now resolved! Thanks cyu

Re: Button - connection

immad — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:40:14 -0000

Hi,

Good point, that button at the top should be the same as in the developer section. I will correct that. If you would like to use the same button as login if you simply follow the steps above but remove the part that says "mode=connect" it will show up as the normal Clickpass Enter button. Hope that makes sense.

I see the issue with the OpenID selector dropdown on the connect button. It is supposed to work. There is no reason why at connection the user shouldn't use their OpenID.

Will fix those issues asap. Thanks for your comment,
Immad

Re: Button - connection

immad — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:33:29 -0000

Hi Justindz,

The nonce-protection referred to here is specific to the connect button; this is at stage 3 at the bottom when you are creating the site through clickpass.com/developer.

The nonce is necessary to stop cross site forgery attacks where someone could set the users OpenID at a site without his/her consent.

It is fairly easy to setup, basically you create a user-specific nonce (a random number), store the nonce in the user's session and then pass it to the callback URL that you can see used in the connect button (it is the override_openid_callback_url parameter). When you get a connection request check whether the nonce is correct before proceeding.

Many people opt initially to not show a connect button and add it in later to the user account page. It is very much an additional usability feature.

- Hope that helps, Immad

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

immad — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:11:03 -0000

Matt aren't you missing Matt Maroon's (obvious) point that Xobni could not sell even if the founders wanted to. Xobni did a VC round at around $10m post, how could they sell for only $20m?

Either way, I wouldn't consider them that ballsy, if you have done a $5m round and are doing really well by many measure why would you settle for a $20m exit? I am sure they pay themselves more than enough to live happily.

Re: The entrepreneurial ladder

immad — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:30:39 -0000

Hi Ewan, amusing comment. Please get in touch immad (at) clickpass d0t com.

Re: Merge accounts

immad — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:37:53 -0000

Hi,

Although we don't document it (to keep things simple). You can pass signup_only=true to the process_openid_registration URL. So that it will not ask for the users merge details. For example, here is the normal Disqus process_openid_registration page:

http://www.clickpass.com/process_new_openid?aft...

nand here it is with signup_only=true

<a href="http://www.clickpass.com/process_new_openid?after_helper=true&signup_only=true&callback_url=http%253A%252F%252Fdisqus.com%252Fopenid%252Fprocess_openid_registration%252F&email_label=Email&new_openid_completion_url=http%253A%252F%252Fdisqus.com%252Flogin%252F%253Fnext%253DNone&nickname_label=Username&photo-url_label=Photo&process_openid_registration_url=http%253A%252F%252Fdisqus.com%252Fopenid%252Fprocess_openid_registration%252F&requested_fields=photo-url%252Cnickname%252Cemail&required_fields=nickname%252Cemail&site_key=Y8omc7GgdW&site_name=Disqus.com">http://www.clickpass.com/process_new_openid?aft...

We are working on ways to remove the Clickpass based merge process. It is the most user friendly way of doing it, and easiest for website owners to implement without having to worry about all the edge cases. But we share your concerns with it.

Thanks for your feedback, much appreciate,
Clickpass

Re: Installing Clickpass

immad — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:32:19 -0000

Hi,

Thanks for you feedback. Both good suggestions, I will implement the tab thing straight away and see what we can come up with for the "all on one" page.

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

immad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:57:53 -0000

Yep, completely agree with the public point. Also I can see the custom OpenID dropdown can be confusing, we have a limited space to work with, hopefully we can re-jig a few things to make that clearer in the future.

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

immad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:56:22 -0000

Hi Luke, team@clickpass.com is good. I am going to look into that bug, I am not sure if we tested on wordpress 2.5, it was working on a few versions though. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

immad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:58:57 -0000

Hi Adam,

Clicking on the clickpass button takes you to clickpass where you can signup and get an OpenID from us. If you would like to use your own openid you can use the OpenID icon. Once you signup to Clickpass you can associate your own OpenID to your Disqus account and get the best of both worlds. Hope that clarifies things,

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

immad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:05:14 -0000

Awesome!!!!

Re: Heroku | API and External Git Access

immad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:46:05 -0000

wow, been waiting for this for a long time. I can't do much without vi. Nice

Re: Trends, gaps and trends

immad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:44:54 -0000

wow, that is off-topic. Yes I did. But, gotto say I don't remember many names/faces from when i was younger than 9 :). My Email is immad ( at ) akhund d0T net, email me.

Re: Kittens + bouncing ball = endless fun

immad — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:03:10 -0000

lol. Alexis you is crazy :P

Re: Trends, gaps and trends

immad — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:48:53 -0000

You got me there. I have heard similar statements but didn't investigate. Let me see what i can find..

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_the_mob... says

"by some accounts, about 3 billion mobile phone users in the world.". Well that doesn't justify the statement. I will make a correction. Thanks