“ If I wanted to own the social networking operating system, I wouldn’t enter a winner takes all race to own the biggest social graph. Instead, I’d work as hard as I could to make a user-centric set of tools for managing what I want known about me, and who I’m willing to have know it, as well as underlying libraries for discovering and verifying other authorized sources of information about me and who I know, as well as managing access to and authorization to use that information. OAuth may be a step in the right direction.
OAuth
An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
October 14, 2007
