While the news that Google is now an OpenID Provider was generally welcomed, a common chorus decrying their support (along with others large OPs like Yahoo, Microsoft and others) at best as half-hearted, at worst as ruining OpenID has revealed a significant barrier to such large providers becoming relying parties (even beyond usability).
Eric Sachs (Google [...]
Tag Archives: oauth
Lightweight access PINs: a modest proposal for enabling OpenID in desktop and mobile apps
Oct 30th – 3pm
OAuth for the iPhone: Pownce.app
Jul 11th – 11am
If you’re one of the lucky folks that’s been able to upgrade your iPhone (and activate it) to the 2.0 firmware, I encourage you to give the Pownce application a try, if only to see a real world example of OAuth in action (that link will open in iTunes).
Here’s how it goes in pictures:
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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 [...]