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JanRain RPX: A login buffet of OpenID, Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, and MySpaceID

Rick Turoczy on December 11, 2008

JanRainAll of the sudden everybody in Portland is going all Hollywood on us.

First SplashCast announces that they’re partnering with Hulu. And now JanRain has announced that their RPX solution—a product that makes managing the ever-growing variety of distributed login credentials easier for developers and users—is going to be helping Interscope Geffen A&M, a division Universal Music Group, give fans an easier way to connect with their favorite artists.

Using the RPX interface, fans who’d like to connect with say, Lady Gaga, have the option of using their Facebook identity, Google identity, MySpace identity, or any variety of OpenID flavors, like AOL, Yahoo!, or Portland’s MyOpenID or myVidoop.

RPX login box

Where did all of these options come from all of the sudden? Well…

It’s been quite the month for the world of distributed social networking. Both Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect – two services designed to help user manage a single profile across multiple sites – launched on the same day. Then, MySpace followed in close succession with their MySpaceID offering, another distributed social option built on the Open Stack. In a matter of days, the distributed social space went from nascent to completely confusing.

JanRain is hoping to make it a little less confusing, for both developers and users. And if they have to work with big-time music types—like 50 Cent, Fergie, and Guns n’ Roses—to get that done, so be it.

For more information, see JanRain’s RPX specific site or read the release. If you haven’t had your fill of my writing for the day, you can also read my write-up on ReadWriteWeb.

Published by Rick Turoczy

More than mildly obsessed with the Portland startup community. Founder and editor at Silicon Florist. Cofounder and general manager at PIE. Follow me on Twitter: @turoczy

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  3. Rishabh Verma October 12, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    RPX is really a great tool for all, the newbie developers as well as the professional ones, Its another step towards data portability and movement towards web 3.0

  4. Peat December 11, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    RPX is pretty easy to work with. For all you developer types, I have a quick write up on how it works and how to work with it over here: http://peat.org/2008/12/05/rpx-in-action/

  5. Will Radik December 11, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    Smells a little fishy to me! Entertainment companies = evil. : D Just sayin’.

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