>> Steve Bruner: Welcome to the WordPress New York City Meetup
Serge is going to be our first presenter, He's going to talk about a plugin he wrote called Latch. Serge, come over here.
>> Serge Thompson: I hope everyone's doing well tonight.
As Steve said I'm from Latch,
and what i've developed is a a mobile application
our goal is to get rid of usernames and passwords and
we've built a plugin for word press that allows you to
login with your phone
and uh... and you can uh
post to vet website or the blog that you've logged on to.
So uh... you're lucky today the demo is very quick
uh... but that's kind of the power of that
and where the use comes in.
i'll just show you, this is our website, and the application will be released soon
to the app store. You can get updates via email address if you put it in
here.
I'll just scroll down.
This gives a very brief overview but I'll click the demo right here.
so this isa typical social login
uh... structure plugin
with our latch application uh... login procedure, so all you do if you want to
log into the site, and uh... add anything to the blog,
is you would tap on this L right here,
on the lower left there,
and then
it contacts
the Latch
uh... ID provider.
And uh... I can
walk way over here but it's easier to kind of scan fromright here, but
you take out your mobile application
and
the latch application,
and you open the app,
and you simply point it at the QR code,
and i'll do that here.
It's a little bit easier here.
And it scans it,
and then logs you in instantly s0 don't have to...
Where this is really useful is
if you want to create a account on the site you don't have to 'create account'.
You download the application and then
you uh... go to the sites, you see this Latch
icon and you login, and you can instantly share on that site, create an
account and
and um, kind of move forward from there. So i can show you that you're logged in
uh...
on the upper right it says 'Howdy the latch user' there
and
you can then go to like the news,
uh...
and you can leave a comment,
and your login as this user uh... you leave the comment
and um... can
proceed from there.
So, I think it's a good way of
really
uh... getting rid of usernames and passwords, and it's useful for the
WordPress area right now.
Um,
but i really wan to make into a bigger thing, so
it's based on the same structure
as uh... like facebook login and, and google login and, and,
Twitter login.
So it's all the same infrastructure,
and yet it's applied to WordPress in this situation.
So a quick demo, but you can see it's a very easy way of logging in
uh... you can forget about usernames and password, ,making new accounts and things,
and you will get to augment
uh... security features. I mean down the line what we want to implement is facial recognition,
voice recognition,
Things.
uh...
When you want to improve security in different areas
So this is what we have right now. This is where we are starting and uh... pretty excited to you get
this plugin out . It;s on the site um...
and then, yeah, if you wanna find out more about the application,
uh... just throw youe email in and we'll you know and uh...
is too great to share this with you guys tonight.
Thank you very much.
>> Steve Bruner: [inaudible] some questions. >> Serge Thonpson: Oh yeah, questions.
>> Steve Bruner: So the idea is that your phone knows who you are.
sandifer
yourself dozen ads yet so uh... news download applications you put your email
in
this sent the link
you go to your email you authorize it saying that um... he sent this link to
the email and i want to offer rides application
and then the ap is
active so you can log into any different site that has
this latch involvement
tuesday
yet use that
connect identity
yet it builds like uh... are very alight profile
uh... for each time so right now
guilds on
heidi here
and uh... believing you can build on that
uh... it's more just a
of lightning gration
before just
what do you want to like blog on the site or uh... considered
his
so it was the oldest habits latched user id ray here
uh... but
expand upon that waited on the uh... will kind of build on that
dahlia that's that
utilized
log on
stand for
field
not no
yeah so this gets past that
and uh... i mean it's nice because you actually have the physical phone
uh...
with the camera and and uh... a voice for the next thing
one oh add on to say if you're doing
financial transactions things like that dot
uh... just dug
it can be ported to any fun
never forget
profile for us
briefly for you
it is the issue
here
yelling right now we just have this simple structure right now
um...
what yeah we're planning to do or what i would like to do is build a lot more
features
in in the great as much as we can with other uh...
alike avatars and things report back
so uh... 'cause those are all through
this the standards that are marching wichita open it the or standards and
that's why the
things like this are making a more possible
uh... or
the uh... those standards are making things like this possible
making the
uh... atmosphere will be easier for
intense uh...
security
now so that changes
are
depending on any of the sites you go on to the states
it's specific to you
exacts uh... web expiry
so wherever you travel like you can go from computer computer
and it recognizes you selva this just
the if you are address
information and then i gave
the phone has
my identity information
and it just
uh... links them together
using one very like fluid easy experience
we don't have that in the great
this is more of like an active thing
um... and so it would be yeah a display that changes like
uh... immediately nice going
angle
you go to the gas stations they have their screens in front of you and that
shows that you are coding is paid for it that way
hope
but uh... want to be will be at work rest on or great now it's a lot on our
website
uh...
but it's it's very simple so
use downloaded it's that's right here
uh... and use install it and then
there's a provider lest in new jobs
uh... in able the latch one and then it's done so that's all you have to do
but you'll see a provider list and you just scroll down those you have the
typical ones you have face book through google on twitter and
and all the similar ones that you can mabel
and then we have our laps one enabled as well
so it's all on the same platform
goodies
explain
allowances
yet yet because the communities build off of a structure of
uh... the
social login pieces and so
i wanted to
basically use that infrastructure so that
uh...
it's
it's kind of fluid throughout it uh...
it's uh...
it's and
i mean just using the standards and the infrastructure that's already there that
people are trust yet
we have long-term yeah so i mean arrived
develop the company right now and died just kind of at the beginning of doing
the releasing and and uh... getting everything out there
so
misstep is just on the first up is the phone and then
um...
keeping it that way right now
until
uh... we developed that yet some or use some atr_s in airdrie
uh... facial recognition
when things like that
for higher level things in at the higher level of kind of walking because
these ones
i mean he probably when you want to be trouble the with having two
do anything for a commissioned pieces like that
so we'll be penna depending on the situation
yeah so we're working on standards that are already out there the open ideal wv
systems
and that this is just kind of an additive peace which
much simpler i mean and using the phone about stuff
thank you very much of a