MySocialCloud is a cloud-based bookmark
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and
password
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website that allows users to log into all of their online accounts from a single, secure website.
The company's investors include
Sir Richard Branson
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,
Insight Venture Partners
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’ Jerry Murdock, and
PhotoBucket
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founder Alex Welch.
The company and its founders have been featured in
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and
The Huffington Post
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.
History
MySocialCloud was co-founded by Scott Ferreira,
Stacey Ferreira, and Shiv Prakash in 2011.
The idea for a one-stop password storage and login tool came when a computer crash left Scott without documents he used to store access information to his online data.
In 2013, the siblings sold MySocialCloud to
Reputation.com.
Services
MySocialCloud is
cloud-based
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, and the platform lets users securely store passwords and automatically log into several
social media
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websites simultaneously.
The website auto-populates password fields, letting the user log into all of the sites at the push of a button.
The service also provides users with security updates for the websites they have included in their profile, and informs users if a website has been hacked.
Security played a major role during development of the platform.
Passwords stored on the service are salted and hashed with a two-way encryption method known as AES.
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External links
*http://mysocialcloud.com/
Web applications
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