Comments on: Google supports OAuth for Google Contacts API http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/ Web2.0, Plone, Second Life, New Marketing, Data Portability Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Christian Scholz http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/comment-page-1/#comment-2337 Christian Scholz Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:18:14 +0000 http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/#comment-2337 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! :-) 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 http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/comment-page-1/#comment-2336 Josh Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:09:24 +0000 http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/#comment-2336 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... 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 http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/comment-page-1/#comment-2334 Khürt Williams Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:35:06 +0000 http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/#comment-2334 This ( OAuth ) is a great idea but like OpenID, not many site are supporting it. This ( OAuth ) is a great idea but like OpenID, not many site are supporting it.

]]> By: Josh http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/comment-page-1/#comment-2331 Josh Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:14:05 +0000 http://mrtopf.de/blog/en/google-supports-oauth-for-google-contacts-api/#comment-2331 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... 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…

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