Janrain
Founder | Larry Drebes | |
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Headquarters | 1233 NW 12th Avenue, Suite 150
Portland, Oregon, Parent Akamai Technologies | |
Website | Akamai Identity Cloud |
Janrain, sometimes styled as JanRain, is a
History
Janrain was founded in Portland in 2002 by Larry Drebes, who as of 2016[update] is the company's chief technology officer (CTO),[2] and former chief executive officer (CEO).[3][4][5] The firm's name "references a wet January in Portland",[4] and has been described as a "leading provider of customer profile and identity management".[6][dead link][7] According to Forbes, Drebes recognized the value of social media in 2004 and predicted the need for users to manage their online identities.[8] He helped create the OpenID protocol, which has been called a "decentralized authentication method for the new Web".[3][8] Janrain was a founding member of the OpenID Foundation and has advocated for OpenID.[3][9] As a privately held company, Janrain has grown steadily since its inception.[10][11]
In December 2009, Janrain raised US$3.25 million from American venture capital firms
In February 2013, the
The company's headquarters are in the
In April 2016, Jim Kaskade joined Janrain as the new CEO.[27] He was hired in turn by Conversica in late-2019.[28]
Clients
In December 2009,
Technology
RPX, a software as a service (SaaS) platform for on-site OpenID account acceptance, has been described as Janrain's "flagship" product. More than 170,000 websites were using the solution by December 2009.[3] According to VentureBeat, "Janrain Engage" enables social sharing, "Janrain Capture" gathers and stores profile data, and allows the sharing of profiles across websites; and "Janrain Federate" enables single sign-on for websites.[12] In 2012, the company launched a "one-click sharing mechanism" for Facebook, giving users greater control over their sharing behaviors.[9] Janrain's services were used by more than 350,000 websites by January 2013.[8][9] TechCrunch said data collected by the company's technology from user log-ins helped clients "provide better on-site or in-app experiences for their users", and that "These experiences could include personalized offers or promotions based on user's social demographics data. Janrain User Management Platform (JUMP) provides a single, unified view of users across multiple online properties and social identities, and includes products for social login, profile data storage, registration, and single sign-on."[9]
Janrain's "social login" technology enables websites to offer registration with profiles from Facebook, Google,[8] LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media sites. It uses profile data, such as a user's age, gender, interests, and location, allowing marketers to target advertising messages.[4][10] According to The Oregonian's Mike Rogoway, Janrain "encourages its clients to minimize what they ask online visitors to share, at least initially, and to build trust". Janrain hired technology attorney Lewis Barr to serve as vice president for "legal and privacy matters", and to inform clients about the appropriate and legal collection of digital information.[4]
In June 2014, the company launched "Janrain User-Generated Content" ("Janrain UGC"); according to Adweek, the service "allows brands to give their fans the ability to interact, comment on, and chat about content on their sites ... [and] allowing them to easily discover friends’ activities on those sites" and "better create personalized brand experiences".[7] Features include comments, activity streams, live chat, social post curation, and redesigned social sharing.[7] The firm's "Social Profile Navigator" provides users with an overview of the data they are sharing on social media sites.[29] Arktan, which Janrain acquired in 2014, developed technology that analyzes Facebook data and enables comments, polls, reviews, and other services. Arktan had also developed social television technology and partnered with Facebook in India to generate on-air and online graphics using data from Facebook Keyword Insights API during the 2014 Indian Premier League cricket event.[10]
Jyte
Type of site | Social content website |
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Owner | JanRain, Inc. |
Created by | Brian Ellin and Dag Rorek Arneson |
URL | http://jyte.com/ (inactive) |
Registration | Free |
Launched | January 31, 2007 |
Jyte was a community-based website created by JanRain in late January 2007, named as an acronym for "Just You Tell 'Em".[30] According to the developers, Jyte allowed users to "make claims about [themselves], others, or just about anything".[31] These "claims" consisted of a headline and, optionally, a short text body. They could also be assigned user-selected tags. A claim was presented as a declarative sentence. Site users could then vote on it by selecting whether they agree or disagree. The total number of people who have voted, as well as their votes, were displayed with the claim. Users could also leave comments on claims, with or without voting. One article described Jyte as an example of the "democracy of the internet," which "can appear to give rise to some amazing insights."[32]
In addition, users could give each other "cred". Cred consisted of a short word or phrase, such as a tag, that applied to a user. For example, if user Bob made a valid claim about darts, user Mary might assign him "darts" cred. Receiving cred increased the recipient user's "cred score". Cred was designed to give an idea of how trustworthy a user was in a given area, as well as his or her interests.[33]
Jyte was developed primarily with
The website is since extinct. It was acquired by "AboutUs" in 2010, and sometime later wholly ceased to exist.[36][37]
Reception
See also
References
- ^ Osborne, Charlie. "Akamai acquires Janrain to strengthen identity access controls, bot protection". ZDNet. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
- ^ "A New Era for Janrain". Janrain. April 27, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Wauters, Robin (December 7, 2009). "Can OpenID Be Commercialized? Investors Bet $3.25 Million On JanRain". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ ISSN 8750-1317. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ "Our Team: Providing Top Customer Data Services". Janrain. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ "Top 10 Coolest Companies to Work for in Portland". O.C. Tanner. September 25, 2014. Archived from the original on November 21, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ ISSN 0199-2864. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ ISSN 0015-6914. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Rao, Leena (January 14, 2013). "Janrain Raises $33M from Salesforce, and Others for Social Log-In Management Platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ Advertising Age. Crain Communications. Archivedfrom the original on November 21, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Spencer, Malia (September 17, 2015). "Cool Spaces: Janrain leaves its mark on an old downtown Portland building". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Kelly, Meghan (August 2, 2011). "Janrain logs $15.5M to help log you in through social networks". VentureBeat. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ a b c Cook, John (January 14, 2013). "Janrain lands $33 million for social sign-in technology". GeekWire. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ "Umbel Partners with Janrain to Provide Secure, Actionable Social Alalytics". Umbel. February 19, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
- ^ ISSN 0162-8968. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ "Janrain Closes $27 Million in Series D Funding Led by HighBar Partners to Augment Customer Identity Management With Rich Analytic Insights". finance.yahoo.com. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
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- ^ "Contact Us". Janrain. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ "Janrain Founder and Board of Directors Announce New CEO". Janrain. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ "Conversica Names Jim Kaskade as Chief Executive Officer | MarTech Advisor". www.martechadvisor.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-04.
- ^ Beck, Martin (July 25, 2014). "Cool Janrain Tool Shows The Data You Expose When You Log In Socially". Marketing Land. Third Door Media, Inc. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
- ^ "Jyte - Jyte means Just You Tell 'Em". jyte.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-12.
- ^ http://blog.jyte.com/2007/02/02/what-is-jyte/
- ^ Rick Nouwen, "What's in a quantifier?", Martin Everaert, The Linguistics Enterprise: From Knowledge of Language to Knowledge in Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010, p. 235.
- ^ "Jyte - Help!". jyte.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02.
- ^ "Jyte: Spread the Cred". Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ISBN 9783540921844.
- ^ "AboutUs acquires Jyte.com - Portland Business Journal". Archived from the original on 2010-01-19.
- ^ "AboutUs Buys Jyte, Aims To Spread The Cred Even More".
- ZDNet. Archivedfrom the original on November 21, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ Greenberg, Paul (March 25, 2014). "CRM Watchlist 2014 Winners: The Onesies – BPMonline, Janrain, and Lattice Engines". ZDNet. Archived from the original on December 23, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
- ^ "Deloitte's 2014 TechnologyFast500TM Ranking" (PDF). Deloitte. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ "Deloitte's 2015 Technology Fast 500 Ranking" (PDF). Deloitte. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 9, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
Further reading
- Barden, Ben (August 31, 2010). "How To: Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage". ReadWrite.
- Greenberg, Paul (March 25, 2014). "CRM Watchlist 2014 Winners: The Onesies – BPMonline, Janrain, and Lattice Engines". ZDNet.
- Menacker, Seth (May 12, 2015). "Janrain Announces Newest Version of Drupal Module Package" (Press release). MarketWatch. TallGrass Public Relations.
- Jyte on Techcrunch