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OAuth Update: Discovery Support is Here
For our more technically-minded readers, we have an update on the progress being made with OAuth, and about OAuth support in Ma.gnolia.
Eran Hammer-Lahav announced yesterday the Draft 2 status of the OAuth Discovery spec, and the news that support had already gone live in FireEagle, Get Satisfaction and of course, Ma.gnolia.
What’s the big idea? Eran summarizes OAuth Discovery as
...where a resource protected by OAuth points to a machine readable document containing the configuration needed to access the resource. With that idea in mind, OAuth Discovery has been revised to fit into the general resource discovery flow, where the OAuth configuration is but one of potentially many other attributes associated with the resource.
This is a step in a longer vision:
As soon as we have a wide range of discoverable resources, we can make the case for built-in browser support for OAuth and discovery, enabling developers to implement a single protocol for all their access control needs, regardless if it is being used by an API developer or an end user visiting a site with a browser.
Posted by Todd on April 8, 2008 | 0 comments | Mark This Post
On Our New Front Doors
Last week I tweeted a couple of times about a big little change we made with Ma.gnolia about how we accept new registrations. Turns out quite a few people around the Internet noticed. One of the running themes among all of this is that we were using OpenID to minimize spam.
Let me say this as clearly as I can: requiring externally-verified accounts – either OpenID or Facebook – is not about using these technologies as anti-spam tools.
Continued...Posted by Larry on April 3, 2008 | 4 comments | Mark This Post
Little Pictures on the Web Site
A few sharp eyes have noticed something new about Ma.gnolia over the past month: a change in the source of our thumbnail screen shots that are found on bookmark detail pages, RSS and Atom feeds, daily blog postings, and through our API.
Where are these images now coming from? A new service we’re publicly launching today called thmbnl.
Continued...Posted by Larry on March 5, 2008 | 1 comment | Mark This Post
Is it Two Already?
Well, here we are in the middle of February and we find ourselves at another milestone: today marks 2 years of Ma.gnolia on the web! Like all anniversaries, it’s a good time to look back and take stock of how far we’ve come, and where we’re heading.
Continued...Posted by Todd on February 15, 2008 | 5 comments | Mark This Post
More Message Control
Continuing with the theme of the week, I’ve been receiving a number of emails from members complaining about about Ma.gnolia messages they’ve been getting from spammers.
One of our goals in building and designing Ma.gnolia has been to make it easy for our members to connect and communicate. But, as we’ve grown and become more widely known, a small, but highly-impactful, number of people selfishly view Ma.gnolia and other social bookmarking sites a promotional tool they can exploit by any means they wish. And, one of those means has been member-to-member messaging.
Continued...Posted by Larry on February 6, 2008 | 16 comments | Mark This Post
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