Tim Bray, the Googler most famous for his prior role in editing the XML language, has set his eyes on a new challenge: eradicating usernames and passwords, at least as we know them today, from the Internet.
Bray, who landed …
With the advent of OAuth, an open standard for authorization, you can easily sign up for new services and apps simply by relying on your Facebook and Google profiles. But that simplicity also makes it easy to give total strangers …
Google+ has an incredible amount of buzz surrounding it at the moment. But one element the young network lacks is open standards compliance.
It’s not unique to Google+, as almost all social networks for that matter have this problem. But …
Guest Post
Peter Yared is founder and CEO of social app development company Transpond.
XAuth, Google’s attempt to head off Facebook’s domination of online content sharing, is fraught with problems. It appears to be built with good intentions, allowing smaller social services …
Twitter showed off new social features and said it now has 100,000 registered apps, the company’s director of platform, Ryan Sarver, said at the Chirp conference in San Francisco today. Seventy-five percent of the company’s traffic now comes through external …
Rumors of a new OAuth application programming interface for Gmail were reported in TechCrunch earlier this week, and now the first service using the tool is up and running. Email networking startup Etacts says it’s using the new API to …
