Comments on: Google supports OAuth for Google Contacts API

By: Christian Scholz

Christian Scholz — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:18:14 +0000

Hey Josh, that looks great. Always good to see sites using it.

Khurt, adding to Josh's comment I also would like to add that OAuth is a rather new standard but to me it already seems to have many friends. Having Google on board will definitely help it, too.

Of course this all needs lots of evangelism but to me it seems at least that adoption of these standards is accelerating. And once you have a tipping point you cannot really launch some service without them.

So let's work together to make this happen! :-)

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:09:24 +0000

Khurt, the interesting thing to note about OAuth is that it doesn't need to be widely adopted for it to "work". OpenID relies on having a lot of places to use it for it to be considered useful.

OAuth on the other hand, is just a preferred protocol for handling how web applications ask users for access to their data. Every major web application does not need to offer it for it to be a benefit to the user. In fact, more often than not the end user will not even need to know anything about OAuth. It is more of a behind the scenes service…

By: Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:35:06 +0000

This ( OAuth ) is a great idea but like OpenID, not many site are supporting it.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:14:05 +0000

We recently posted a screencast of how our OAuth support API works with third-party applications. Anyone interested in seeing the user flow, can check it out at http://www.beenverified.com/developer. Looking forward to hearing more about DataPortability.org at IIW08...