Other day I brought before you a web based personal assistant which allows you to keep track of your usernames and passwords you use to access various web based services. The service, named Pageonce, delivers everything Web users love about the Internet including relevant products, services and offers, and nothing they don’t.

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The service increases the security of your Internet accounts by assigning different user names and passwords to each account and managing them from Pageonce. The service allows you to manage all family members’ frequent flyer accounts from one place, defend against identity theft & online fraud by being aware of account statuses in real time.

Today, I am presenting before you another web service that offers the same genere or service named, MashedLife. The service allows you to access all of your online accounts from one secure place, log in to Facebook, YouTube, online forums, Digg, or any sites from any PC, Mac, even an iPhone w/o typing username/password.

MashedLife is not only for the busy trendy types. For senior & little family members who can’t keep track of their online fun & social accounts, you should set up MashedLife accounts for them.

– MashedLife.com

The service is free, so other than having to clear the hurdle of consciously entrusting it with your login information, its a quick test. It is also being positioned as a very safe and secure facilitator. Once your information is saved, and you later return to a page, a MashedLife bookmarklet sends the website data and a “big random number” to request information registered with the service. This process is said to operate “on top of SSL.” once MashedLife authenticates the transmission, it “encrypts and sends it back via the secure HTTPS session.”

MashedLife | LIFE IS GETTING MORE EASIER

When you navigate to a site’s login page, click on mashed life’s bookmark from the browser. From your browser, the mashed life bookmark sends the login page and a big random number with the request as the key to further encrypt the communication on top of SSL.The bookmark is actually a “bookmarklet”, a small piece of Javascript code that performs the bookmark login action for you.

Because the bookmarklet code knows which site you are at when you click on the login bookmark, you need only one Mashed life login bookmark to log in to all sites.

Mashed life bookmarklet decodes encrypted information inside your browser, fills in your account login information, and logs you in. All this happens with just one click without the user to type in the username/password.

Mashed Life is not a proxy. It is just filling out the login form to help the user log in, then transfers the control back to the user’s browser to communicate with the target site directly. No communication goes through Mashed Life after you are logged in to the target site.

Mashed life supports Yubikey for strong authentication. And the login is immune from key logger attacks in this way:

The difference between Pageonce and MashedLife is that MashedLife uses a Secure Socket Layer for its transactions, and I think this is an advantage of MashedLife.

MashedLife

Website : www.mashedlife.com
Location : Sunnyvale, California, United States

The Mashed Life Service is an online service where individuals that have signed up with Mashed Life can create and save encrypted entries containing confidential information. Once you’re logged into MashedLife, you can simply click on the link next to each stored account to launch a new tab or window and do bookmark login, or direct login if that site allows.

We have been trying to bring to you readers some of the unnoticed treasures in the Internet. Some of the websites that provide useful services had been talked about in our previous posts INTERESTING WEB 2.0 APPS [PART I, II & III]. Hope these website had been useful for you and made use of them.

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This time we are presenting before you another treasure in the Internet which is not much noticed : Pageonce – the free Personal Internet Assistant.

The bookmarks list in both FireFox and IE in my system is flooded with web addresses and it is getting more and more difficult for me to keep track of the websites I like and which I wish to go back at times.

This becomes painful if you have lot of sites and services which requires you to be a registered user if you want to make use of them. Websites like that of Banks, Emails, Shopping, Online web services and so on. There are a lot of sites which allow me to store the user names and passwords in a single place and use it as and when required. But I was concerned about the security in sorting the user names and passwords online.

A good alternative is the local password manager provided by FireFox and is working good. You have to remember only the master password for the password manager. But the problem with this service is if you are using a different machine, you don’t have any of the user name and password.

Fortunately, I found this website, Pageonce, that is on the way to creating a painless Internet experience free from the hassles of logins, password amnesia and, surfing the same sites over and over and over again. Using the powerful patent-pending Fetchonce™ technology, Pageonce delivers everything Web users love about the Internet including relevant products, services and offers, and nothing they don’t.

Pageonce – the free Personal Internet Assistant – has become a lifesaver to thousands of people just like you. With Pageonce you will:

• Always have a clear financial picture of bank balances, credit card limits, investments
• Never go over cell phone minutes or text limits again by getting usage alerts
• Get Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Gmail all at the same time
• Protect kids from inappropriate online contact & activity by monitoring their accounts
• Track purchases from Amazon, eBay and Costco
• Manage all family members’ frequent flyer accounts from one place
• Know what’s coming next from Netflix and be the first to get the latest new release
• Cure password amnesia forever by linking directly to all accounts from Pageonce
• Defend against identity theft & online fraud by being aware of account statuses in real time
• Avoid late fees by knowing when bills are due and paying them on time
• Increase the security of your Internet accounts by assigning different user names and passwords to each account and managing them from Pageonce
• Have the ability to call customer service for any account provider with the click of a mouse right from

PAGEONCE Your Personal Internet Assistant

Once you register with Pageonce you can arrange all the things you want to remember in six tidy categories, which are all set up to present and access your information on one page. The categories are:

1. Finance
2. Shopping
3. Utilities
4. Social & Fun
5. Travel
6. E-mail

Now, simply select from among the thousands of banks, credit cards, email providers, social networks, utility companies, cell phone companies, airlines, e-commerce sites, and many more accounts previously gathered and pre-populated by your Personal Internet Assistant. You barely have to type the first few letters of an account before the full title automatically pops into the ‘Add Account’ window.

SECURITY : Pageonce says in their website:

We adhere to the highest standards in security in order to keep your data private and secure. Security is part of our culture and we work to bring you a great service, with the peace of mind that your information will be protected.

Improve Your Internet Security and Privacy

1. Proactively Monitor Against Identity Theft and Fraud : Not only does Pageonce alert you to critical activity in your accounts, but you can view all of your accounts in one website.
2. Protects your Passwords : Because you no longer have to remember all of your logins and passwords, Pageonce makes it easier for you to create different user names and passwords for each account and access them directly through Pageonce.
3. Military Level Security : Pageonce employs military level security – the highest standards in internet security. Our independent, multiple security layers include 256 bit data encryption, 128 bit data encrypted SSL systems and multiple firewalls.
4. Anonymity : Pageonce will never require personally identifiable information that connects you to your accounts. All you need is your email address and zip code.
5. Certified by the Security Experts : Pageonce maintains state of the art security practices and is certified by TRUSTe, McAfee Hacker Safe and VeriSign.
6. Ongoing Security Optimization : Pageonce hires the best security experts to conduct periodic security reviews and vulnerability assessments.
7. Insured by the Best : Pageonce is insured by a top 10 A+ rated insurance company.
8. Read-Only Financial Accounts : Financial accounts are a read-only service. Pageonce’s system cannot manipulate any of the information in your financial accounts.
9. NEVER shares or rents your data with or to anyone : Pageonce is designed so that you are the only one who can access your account. You can delete any or all of your accounts at any time and Pageonce erases it from the system.
10. Prevents Phishing : Because you access all of your online accounts through the secure Pageonce site, you are no longer exposed to criminal attempts by strangers to access your personal accounts and sensitive data through fraudulent links that mimic real provider website logins.