KickApps Ties Into WordPress With Shared Authentication

NY-based KickApps is announcing this morning a new tie into Wordpress that allows for a single sign on (SSO) experience between WordPress blogs and KickApps hosted social media sites.

When publishers enable the KickApps SSO plugin between their WordPress and KickApps powered social media sites, registered members of the WordPress powered site will be auto-registered into the site’s KickApps powered community during sign in, requiring no initial user import.

Most WordPress blogs aren't using any authentication so I assume to integrate KickApps into the site, they will either need to turn on user authentication on the WordPress side or on the KickApps side.

This is a good move by KickApps to further distribution -- they announced a tie-into Joomla in October. It's fun to watch the battle between the white-label social networking providers. Check out our previous KickApps coverage including an interview with marketing SVP Michael Chin.