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Could you please show us a few screenshots? Thanks!

Can anyone recommend any resources about API design?

We started using "intruder" instead of "hacker"/"cracker" at Rublon. It seems to work pretty well.

Domeny.tv (http://www.domeny.tv/en) protects its login via 2FA: http://www.domeny.tv/en/two-factor-authentication

I believe that instead of messing around with a known standard (username + password fields), it would be better if web services would implement two-factor authentication. Password managers would become useless then, because you would be able to use simple passwords that you may remember, while being even more secure.

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2FA will make password managers obsolete.

Google wants website owners to use Webmaster Tools so that it can connect websites with individuals. The end goal is to make it harder for people to manipulate search results in a way that would result in an inferior user experience for searchers.

For many years, Google has been a gold mine to a profession called "SEO". It still is, but every single day it is getting harder to extract value from it if all you do is trying to get your site to the top of the SERPs. Eventually it will be very expensive to trick Google and this is why I see many professional SEOs starting work at big brands or doing consulting for them. It's easier to get good rankings for a site that provides great value to users than for another spammy endeavor.

I was also involved in this business many years ago, but mainly to rank my sites that were getting traffic anyway because of the value they provided to users. Instead of being angry, I think that SEOs should be thankful that Google made it possible for them to take advantage of their service and even helped them along the way — I am. There is nothing wrong in charging people money for services that they use to make money themselves.

SEO should always only be a tool that helps you reach users with your quality product, not your main way of making a living because in itself it creates no value to society.

The official website says: "We'll have videos of the individual talks up as soon as we can." (http://startupschool.org)

It's great to see another big web service implementing two-factor authentication. Looks like 2FA is going to be a standard option in web apps in the near future.

Another reason why it is so important to secure your online accounts with two-factor authentication wherever possible.

The device that you use to sign in could be a second factor. That's how Rublon works: the mobile app allows you to manage your Trusted Devices. Check out a demo at http://www.pagechimp.com/.

Web services should be relying on passwords because that is a simple means of authentication that users already know and it keeps the services independent from a central identity provider. As we all know passwords alone can't protect us anymore though, so web services need to give their users an option to secure their accounts with a second factor. Thus in a few years I think that two-factor authentication is going to be a standard way of protecting our online accounts.

The first $10k I made were from ads on websites (pay per view, pay per click, affiliate marketing). In the meantime I sold one of them and then moved to domain names (catching dropped domain names and then parking/reselling them; still own most of them). Then I've built the biggest tattoo community in Poland with over 500k fans on Facebook (currently only making revenue through ads; next month we'll release our first t-shirt). Now I'm concentrating on building an easier and more secure authentication solution for the web (using mobile phone based cryptography instead of passwords).

Or https://rublon.com :-) contact me for free API access or vBulletin/phpBB/SMF plugins (mw@rublon.com).

Which known startups were born on a Startup Weekend?

I think the reason might be that people who are able to build "the next big consumer app" just don't need an accelerator to start building. Just like Steve Jobs didn't need an MBA from Harvard in order to build Apple.

The secret of creating wealth is identifying a solution that will improve the world and is not evident before it does.

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Hi Kord! Thank you for your interest in Rublon. We have removed the self promoting tweet window from appearing (it would appear 10 times and then go away). This also concerns the sharing windows that appear after logging in to a Google service or Facebook.

Thanks for your opinion guys. Looks like we'll have to invest much more time in creating a new website that will explain Rublon more precisely. I can see that there is way too much confusion and misunderstanding about the product.

Rublon replaces passwords with cryptographic keys that are partially stored on your phone. This is a completely new approach to user authentication.

You have to log in with your username and password first and then you have to enter another password (those digits that you're talking about). With Rublon you just scan a Rublon Code and that's it.

Right now the second factor can be the PIN code that you set up for your phone. Soon we'll add an optional intelligent PIN option for the app itself.

Two-Factor authentication sucks. It's too hard for users. Most people will never us it. Dropbox should consider using Rublon (yes, that's my startup): https://rublon.com

7 reasons why you should add Rublon to your website: http://blog.rublon.com/2012/why-add-rublon/

This is why websites should start to adopt solutions like Rublon (www.rublon.com).

7 reasons why you should add Rublon to your website http://blog.rublon.com/2012/why-add-rublon/

I'm the inventor of this technology. Sorry if this looks like advertising, but I think that the problem with passwords nowadays is huge nowadays and has to be solved. BTW: We're releasing a new Android app in a few hours.

How many users/downloads did Sparrow have?

Why did you wait so long to launch on Android?

Sounds great, thank you! Just sent you an email. Hope you're sending to Poland :-)