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HN was using Clickpass (YC Summer 07), which was acquired and shuttered by Janrain early last year. Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page.

If I recall correctly, Clickpass was a centralized OpenID proxy, whereas Persona is trying to bootstrap a fully decentralized protocol. We don't want to even be able to track you. :)

[Edit: Corrected YC cohort. Thanks wamatt!]

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I believe Clickpass was YC '07. Falling short of a Series A raise, Yola/Synthasite acquired them in 2008 [1]

Then a few years later (2012), Yola sold the IP and users to Janrain [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402973

[2] http://janrain.com/clickpass-acquired-by-janrain/

EDIT: my pleasure callahad :)

"Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page."

Where? I can't see it.

The button was removed a few hours ago: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/192501/remove-obsole...

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