Log Into Social Network Sites Using PayPal Login

The PayPal Identity Services session involved a collaborative effort from PayPal's Ashish Jain, Vidya Shivkumar from Janrain, and Dave Yovanno from Gigya.

Ashish described how it is becoming more and more cumbersome to manage so many login credentials online. The average Web user has 25 online accounts and logs into one of these accounts at least eight times a day. There is also a huge security risk involved since many people use the same one or two credentials for all accounts. If a malicious hacker gets just one of your login/password combinations, your critical private information is exposed, including access to online financial service and bank accounts.

Following identity standards set by OpenID, SAML, and OAUTH, PayPal is teaming up with Janrain to provide PayPal Identity Services. When a third-pary Website implements PayPal Identity Services, users of that Website can log in using their PayPal credentials. This eliminates some of the burden of managing so many credentials, and both the Website and the individual user gets the benefit of PayPal's strong validation, security and fraud system. And PayPal only delivers user information that is necessary for the third-party Website to have and use.

PayPal's partner in Identity Services is Janrain. Jahrain's Engage technology makes it possible for Web user to log into third-party Web sites using their PayPal Credentials.

Gigya's technology wraps popular social network APIs into a Website's single API. With this implementation and a few lines of JavaScript code, a third-party Website is able to:

• Register/login users through Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and others
• Get users’ social network profile data and friends list
• Post stories/tweets on users' walls and update their status

In future releases of PayPal ID Services, PayPal plans to add additional qualified data, integrate with Payments, and enhance the overall user experience.