Parse (YC S11) adds User Accounts to Android. (opens in new tab)

Haha. Sorry about that. Keep up the good work. :)

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I think Parse user management is aimed at a different use case. The AccountManager is a more heavyweight library that is useful for many complicated things. For example, if you are Facebook or Foursquare and you're implementing your own api for third parties to use and you want third party apps to be able to use your service's account, definitely use the AccountManager. Whereas the ParseUser is designed to be the simplest way to add your own user accounts to your application. They're both useful; use the right tool for the job.

Not only should it tie into the existing account management API's, but I can't figure out why they're offering their own push notification API when Android has one built in!!

You should look into jquery waypoints --> http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/

I use it on my blog to change how social buttons behave once you scroll past a certain point.

It's per-app user accounts that people can integrate with just a few lines of code.

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