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April 9, 2008

A startup to look at: Clickpass.com

Filed under: theweb — Tags: review, startup, web — Bart @ 3:57 pm

Startups launch left and right (Hell I plan to launch my own in the next few months!) but a lot of them don’t stick out. Clickpass.com is one of those that sticks out for me, but has been kind of flying under the radar lately.Clickpass allows you to use a single login for all your sites. It’s basically OpenID, but they’ve done it right and have actually made OpenID very easy to use. Even a few of my friends who could never “get” OpenID because it was just a hassle to work with, loved ClickPass.

So far with Clickpass, I am only using it on HackerNews which makes it kind of pointless for me as I am still having to log in, but currently no other sites I frequently use Clickpass, which is one downfall of it. Adoption for it is slow, but hopefully it picks up.

What’s great about Clickpass is once I’m logged in, all I have to do is click the “Clickpass Enter” button on any supported site and I will be logged in, no need to retype information. Additionally, I can mange my details and avatar straight from Clickpass without having to deal with multiple sites.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned above the adoption is slow. Despite a story on TechCrunch and some initial media, it’s now kind of flying under the radar. I haven’t seen any sites added to the supported sites list in the past few weeks and I hope that they get some more adopters.

Needless to say, I know when I launch my own user-oriented site, I will be supporting Clickpass. It makes sense from a user standpoint and as long as the user isn’t confused, which Clickpass does very well in not doing, then it works very well.

Either way, check out Clickpass.com and see what they have to offer. You can also integrate it into your own blog (I will when I actually update to Wordpress 2.5)!

February 4, 2008

Spice Girls live up the Air Canada Centre

Filed under: music, nightout — Tags: concert, music, review, toronto — Bart @ 2:37 pm

Last night, hordes of thousands of girls, young to mature, got to relive their childhoods. Oh, and some guys too. That’s right, Spice Girls played live in the Air Canada Centre last night making their debut in Toronto for their short, but very busy world reunion tour.

We were in the upper bowl, but the sound and view was amazing. Personally, I liked watching from their as I could see the entire crowd from above, and could really feel the energy.

And my god was there energy. Every pause in singing, there was a loud, massive screaming of girls. Every moment any of the Spice Girls did something different, or put on a new dress, or showed some signs of their old days, the girls yelled.

Miranda was singing along to every song, although she didn’t dance (Owell)! We were in the upper bowl, and in the ACC, you have good seats pretty much anywhere. Even then, the energy shown by the people sourrounding me was nuts. All the girls around me were dancing, clapping, singing along, and when they moved - I felt it. I could feel the floor vibrating. It was kind of eery, but also pretty cool.

In the end, the show was a blast, which could be made obvious by my total lack of negativity in this post. The energy was great, the Spice Girls put on an amazing show, and truly know how to get the crowd going, and the sound, as usual in the ACC was incredible.

I am obviously not a huge fan of the Spice Girls, but I grew up with them and know their stuff, and very much enjoyed it. The song “Spice up your life” was easily one of the best performances I have seen in my lifetime.