Roslyn Zolandor Team : User Experience and Information Architecture Tags : Web Development Web 2.0 Social Networking

Registering a new user on your website via their existing social network account

Roslyn Zolandor Team : User Experience and Information Architecture Tags : Web Development Web 2.0 Social Networking

With an estimated 1.2 billon+ people registered on at least one social network it comes as no surprise that there is a service that leverages this by allowing you to register users on your website through their existing social network account. Janrain Engage provides a service that does just that.

The advantage to users:

1. Easier and quicker registration

2. Ability to share their activity with friends

Advantage to you:

1. Increase in registrations

2. Larger exposure to potential customers

3. Ability to collect more information about a user than they may have initial freely given

Plans and pricing

The basic plan is FREE

• You have to have a “Powered by Janrain” on the sign-in/registration form

• You can have up to 6 providers e.g. Facebook, Google etc..

Mobile Support e.g. iPhone

• You get basic profile data

• 1 Admin login account

• Technical Support is online only

There is also a Plus plan at $100/year or $10/month and Pro which starts from $1000/year.

Live examples of Janrain Engage

Los Angeles Times

Diesel

White pages