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Official Google Blog: Cutting back on your long list of passwords
The registration process used to involve more than 10 steps, including requiring you to find one of those "email validation" messages in your inbox. If you've followed the steps above, you can now sign into Plaxo more easily — by simply clicking a button. While Plaxo showed the first successful ...
Google's 'Hybrid Onboarding' Aims to Cut Down on Passwords
appscout.com — 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 ... (more) Google's 'Hybrid Onboarding' Aims to Cut Down on Passwords
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Google's 'Hybrid Onboarding' Aims to Cut Down on Passwords
AppScout — ... "All of these hybrid onboarding techniques are based on industry standards that both Google and Yahoo support, and that other e-mail providers are beginning to support as well," Google wrote in a blog post. "At the same time, the hybrid onboarding model improves authentication security because websites like Plaxo that use this technique never see a password from you at all." ...

Sign into webservices using Google OpenID Federated Login & Hybrid onboarding
D' Technology Weblog — ... reporting increases in registration rates after deploying this feature. Also announced “Hybrid onboarding” to help people now sign into web services more easily — by simply clicking a button. In addition, after a thorough evaluation of security & privacy of these technologies, same techniques’re being piloted by ...

Google hates passwords, wants you to sign up for sites without them
Download Squad — ... Do you hate having to remember different passwords for every site you sign up for? Google sympathizes. They're working on a way to let you keep far fewer passwords in your life on the web. It's actually something that sites like Plaxo and Facebook already do: ...

Google Gives You Fewer Passwords
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Now Google’s taking it one step further with something called “hybrid onboarding.” When you receive an email invitation in a Gmail account to join another service, including Plaxo, Facebook and more, instead of being prompted to create yet another username and password, you’re given the option to sign in with your Google account: ...

Google Dashboard brings security settings to the forefront
Between the Lines — ... in educating our users with our Privacy Center, making it easier to move data in and out of Google with our Data Liberation Front, and allowing you to control the ads you see with interest-based advertising. Transparency, choice and control have become a key part of Google’s philosophy, and today, we’re happy to announce that we’re doing even more. This is Google’s second announcement this week that takes security of its users into consideration. Earlier this week, the company put up a blog post about the continued efforts in “hybrid onboarding,” the ability to create ...

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