Idea Day36: Automated SignUp
Problem: Every new web startup requires me to sign up an account to have full functionalities. It’s a bore!
Solution: A widget to help you sign up new accounts.
- a.) Save your information in the widget and tag them. (Information frequently required when signing up new an account. ) Input your real name, ID, password, and email address, as a basic set. And your address, zip code, phone numbers, and other less frequently required information as an additional set.
- b.) Whenever you open a new page after clicking a link, something like “sign up now”, this widget is automatically activated by analyzing the key words on the page or link. (with strings like “sign”, “create”, “account”).
- c.) The widget then crawls the html codes of the registration page, and sends the info you saved before to the right columns respectively. For example, if it detects “name”, “password”, and “email” 3 variables from html codes, your info (basic set) with these three attributes/ tags will be input to the corresponding fields on the page.
- d.) Or you can manually activate the widget. Since you know what information the server wants you to fill out to complete registration, you select them (saved in advance) from the widget. In this case, select “name”, “password”, “email” three options, or other info as asked by the sign-up form, then send them to the URL. It’s faster than you type them one by one.
- e.) By any chance the server applied mechanism to prevent from register bots? If it demands you to recognize a random code or numbers and input them correctly, you have to do it by yourself anyway. (sigh~)



Why would you need this if OpenID is just around the corner?