Category Archives: oauth

Facebook Kills Connect, Makes App Creation Easier, Simpler

Posted on August 20, 2010 by jessestay

As I’ve been writing Facebook Application Development for Dummies (now available on Amazon for pre-order!), there has been one thing I have been noticing: Despite all the new focus on Facebook’s Graph API, Facebook has still had a lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Facebook Application Development for Dummies, facebook connect, facebook platform, graph api, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, oauth, social, Technology | 4 Comments

Twitter Testing "OAuth Delegation" With Select Partners – Genius

Posted on February 5, 2010 by jessestay

A common complaint amongst Twitter developers has been that Twitter’s OAuth, the authentication process you see when you click the Twitter login button on a 3rd party website and go to a Twitter-looking page with a “Allow” or “Deny” button, … Continue reading →

Posted in api, authentication, delegation, Geeky, oauth, plain-text, Technology, Twitter, twitter api | 28 Comments

Just in Time for the Holidays, FriendFeed Becomes First OAuth Wrap Provider

Posted on December 17, 2009 by jessestay

About a month ago, Facebook’s David Recordon announced that Facebook was hard at work with the Open Standards Communities on a new OAuth protocol called Wrap.  The goals of the protocol seem to specifically provide a way to direct a … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, FriendFeed, friendfeed dead, Geeky, oauth, Technology, wrap | 11 Comments

Oh, the Trouble With OAuth

Posted on August 7, 2009 by jessestay

This article has been sitting on my desk for the past week or so, and recent activities around the Twitter/Facebook/LiveJournal/Blogger DDoS attacks have made it even more applicable, so it’s good I waited. The problem centers around the “Open” authentication … Continue reading →

Posted in authentication, authorization, ddos, Geeky, oauth, openid, Technology, Twitter | 18 Comments

FriendFeed Opens Up the Firehose to Developers

Posted on July 20, 2009 by jessestay

FriendFeed seems to be staying one (or two or three) step(s) ahead of Twitter in everything they do. Today FriendFeed released their real-time stream of data in beta to any and all developers wishing to write applications. Unlike Twitter, there … Continue reading →

Posted in api, firehose, FriendFeed, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, oauth, platform, real-time, Technology, Twitter | 27 Comments

Social Coding: How to Code Twitter’s OAuth Using Net::OAuth and Perl

Posted on May 19, 2009 by jessestay

For the non-developers in my readership, I’m going to get a little geeky on you here. So you can either tune this one out, or pass it onto your IT staff for use in their applications. I promise much more … Continue reading →

Posted in api, Geeky, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, net::oauth, oauth, Perl, Social Coding, Technology, Twitter, twitter oauth | 17 Comments