Recent Bookmarks in Portable Social Network Tagged With "password"

Coding Horror: Please Give Us Your Email Password

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001128.html
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An excellent rant by Jeff Atwood that explains just why the password anti-pattern is such an abhorrent practice: "How did we end up in a world where it's even remotely acceptable to ask for someone's email credentials?"
- Tags: password, antipattern, oauth, portablity, email, address book
- Saved to Portable Social Network by Jeremy Keith on June 06, 2008.
Yahoo! Address Book API - YDN

http://developer.yahoo.com/addressbook/
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You can know use an API (with BBAuth) to get contact Yahoo account contact details. There really is no excuse now for still using the password anti-pattern.
- Tags: yahoo, api, password, antipattern, xml, json, address book, ydn
- Saved to Portable Social Network by Jeremy Keith on June 04, 2008.