Tag Archives: api

Feature request: OAuth in WordPress

Jul 2nd – @ 5pm

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 better [...]

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Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh)

Jun 4th – @ 11pm

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 bi-directional [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Citizen-centric Web, DiSo, Digital Identity, Life online, Microformats, Technology, Web building | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (19)