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From user perspective having several sign-in options is a source of confusion: first day I sign in with Facebook... next day I come in and don't remember which service I've used to sign in with? And this time I try Twitter only to see none of my data.

How do you guys solve that problem? I think, this might be even the bigger problem than having 20% or 30% "drop out" on sign up process.


You'll probably see that you don't have an account registered with the website through Twitter, not "none of my data". As a user, if you like FB more, you'll likely try FB login first. If you like Twitter more, you'll likely try Twitter login first (if available).


Isn't the obvious 80% solution a separate cookie that just says "this browser last logged in using service X" that the server can use to give UI cues?


With single device - you're right... but this becomes really a problem when you expect your customers to use multiple devices: computers at home, at work, smartphone, iPad...

how would you suggest your customer which login to use the first time she tries to sign in on another device?


Ask for username/email, then key off that. 80% solved.


Would that be my personal email account, my gmail account, my other gmail account, my university/alumni address, my work email or the other work email?


yup, some sort of example how it would work for me as a developer would be awesome!

E.g. I have uservoice, optimizely, ganalytics, kissinsights and totango snippets in my app right now - what UberJS would do for me? Would my biz. partner be able to add new snippets/delete old ones on his own (without interrupting my flow ;)?


Thanks! I've updated some of the copy on the site. Hopefully it's clearer now.

Love the idea of getting your biz guy to update things for you. Yes, it would definitely work for that scenario.


nope, you will not have those buttons duplicated (just upgraded my Nexus S to ICS)


Cool, thanks for confirming that. I guess Techcrunch photoshopped that screenshot together.


I am actually subscribed to Sim Toolkit request/issue in Android issue tracker and each week it gets about 1-2 new requests. (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15070 and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6666). And currently is not a single response from anybody representing Android team there.

My personal problem with this is that in Estonia MobileID (fancy way to authenticate yourself and authorize transactions in banks, public services and other web services - advertised as a more secure way comparing to username/passwords and one time tokens) works through Sim Toolkit.


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