Comments on: OAuth Gains Traction http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/28/oauth-gains-traction/ Rebooting the workforce Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:02:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Chris Messina http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/28/oauth-gains-traction/#comment-297896 Chris Messina Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:29:06 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=2668#comment-297896 I wouldn't exactly say that OAuth hasn't "really taken off" in the past year -- not only was OAuth Core 1.0 only finalized this past December (making it only six months old!) but MySpace essentially inherited OAuth because it supports OpenSocial, which long has promised to support OAuth. Nonetheless, this announcement from Google is huge -- and I think OAuth is really going to be central to social web applications from this point forward. I wouldn’t exactly say that OAuth hasn’t “really taken off” in the past year — not only was OAuth Core 1.0 only finalized this past December (making it only six months old!) but MySpace essentially inherited OAuth because it supports OpenSocial, which long has promised to support OAuth.

Nonetheless, this announcement from Google is huge — and I think OAuth is really going to be central to social web applications from this point forward.

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