In the past couple days, there’s been a bit of a dust-up about some changes coming to WordPress in 2.6 — namely disabling ATOM and XML-RPC APIs by default. The argument is that this will make WordPress more secure out of the box — but the question is at what cost? And, is there a [...]
And then there were three. Today, Yahoo! announced the public availability of their own Address Book API. Though Plaxo and LinkedIn have been using this API behind the scenes for a short while, today marks the first time the API is available for anyone who registers for an App ID to make use of the [...]
Well, it’s been a long time coming, and if you’ve been following my Twitters at all, you’ll know that I’ve been working on an open, community-driven authorization protocol called OAuth for the past few months. Today we released the first Public Draft for review. The idea started as a humble effort to accomplish two goals: [...]