➠ March 6, 2010
FireCheckIn
Through the medium of OAuth and APIs, safely links your FourSquare checkins to your FireEagle account.
Now if only there was anything that actually *used* FireEagle’s data. (Beyond the little box on the right hand side of my blog frontpage)
➠ January 29, 2009
Plaxo's Personal Card: Introducing Two-Click Signup, an initiative to improve the user experience of OpenID; first test now live with Google
This is good: The underlying goodness of OpenID, used in a way which completely hides itself from the user.
➠ April 25, 2008
OAuth support for Google Accounts and Contacts API
Google announce alpha OAuth support, a day after Yahoo announce they’ll be rolling it out. Giving your password to an untrusted site just became even dumber. “This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all
Google Data APIs.”
➠ March 23, 2008
wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle
Simon Willison knocks out a quick prototype showing Wikipedia articles related to your current location, a masterpiece of mashuppery.
➠ March 8, 2008
A Question of Programming Ethics
Pretty much inevitable — An app that asked for your GMail username & password was harvesting them. One point to the “Why we need OAuth” party.
➠ December 4, 2007
OAuth Core 1.0
The OAuth spec is finalized. Let the mashing-up commence!
➠ November 9, 2007
OAuth Test Server
Simple test OAuth server which has a predefined list of keys and tokens, so you can test your client implementations against it. Handy.
➠ October 16, 2007
Twitter: Oauth
Blaine at Twitter has implemented OAuth authentication, the first (I believe) live implementation on the web. I hope to have this rolled into Twadget in the next week or two, so I can stop asking for usernames and passwords.
➠ September 7, 2007
Hueniverse: Explaining OAuth
Excellent summary of what “OAuth” is, who’s behind it, and why you should pay attention to it if you build webapps.