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2-legged OAuth vs. 3-legged explained.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: The OAuth term is most frequently used when referring to 3-legged OAuth. This was a standardized version of a protocol that many vendors like Yahoo, Google, AOL, etc. had deployed which involved an end-user going through a "dance" where they start on the OAuth consumer site, and are redirected to the OAuth provider site where they are asked to approve access by the consumer site to their data. If their approval is given, they are then bounced back to the OAuth consumer site
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2-legged OAuth is a term that is used to refer to another variant of OAuth which does not require this dance.
Happy Birthday OpenSocial.
Quoted: Today, Google’s OpenSocial application platform is marking its first birthday with an event bringing together some of the platform’s top developers at MySpace’s San Francisco office.
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MySpace has also launched support for OpenSocial .8, and will implement version .9 once it becomes available next year.
They probably have a bad-ass developer doing this.
2 FaversShareViewed: 2 Times1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: The OpenSocial API is a set of common APIs for building social applications on many websites. There are two ways to access the OpenSocial API: client-side using the JavaScript API and server-side using RESTful data APIs.
1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: We're pleased to tell you that the OpenSocial JavaScript API version 0.6 has been defined, which updates the initial OpenSocial release to include what we've ...
1 FaverShareViewed: 4 TimesQuoted: OpenSocial MySpace Application Demo - Chris Bissell by MySpace Developer Platform Watch it on MySpace Videos.
Google announces FriendConnect - an extension to OpenSocial. I'm waiting to see the CampFire One video to see what this is really about.
2 FaversShareViewed: 4 TimesWow - OpenId support in Blogger. AOL will need to shift gears to stay in the OpenId race. This is really big news for OpenId advocates.
When you link this with Opensocial developments things start to get really interesting!
1 FaverShareViewed: 8 TimesQuoted: Google's Blogger in Draft program that tests functionality for Google's popular Blogger blogging platform has rolled out OpenID support for comments. The new ...
That didn't take long! I wonder if the security holes are in the host or OpenSocial, itself.
1 FaverShareViewed: 36 TimesQuoted: It didn't take long for someone to hack the first OpenSocial application. In fact, it took just 45 minutes. A developer who goes ...
20 FaversShareViewed: 43 TimesQuoted: The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social ...
1 FaverShareViewed: 9 TimesQuoted: Perhaps Google’s longer-term strategy, though, is to weaken dedicated social networks like MySpace (NWS) and Facebook not by animating a Frankenstein-style competitor but by spreading social features everywhere, sucking out the social life in drips and drops. If every application and web site is social, Facebook becomes just another place to socialize online, not the one that rules them all.
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