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Open standard based user authentication protocol oAuth has now been implemented across all Google Data APIs, quickly offering this young standard for easy mashups more market validation than it's ever

Twitter OAuth - oft promised but lagging in delivery - had begun to take on a mythical status, leaving many to wonder if it would ever be released. Now, that

OAuth, the open authorization protocol standard that will let users give limited access to their data to third party websites without giving away their passwords, crossed an important threshold tonight.

This summer MySpace announced that it would implement OpenID and a number of new user data hooks for developers to build mashups with. That announcement was made in July and

What's the most in-demand API on the web that hasn't existed until today? Wether they knew it or not, millions of people online have thought to themselves "why is this

You can do a lot with new software if you tell it a little bit about yourself - but who wants to give the new kid on the block the

Open source blogging platform WordPress may have won most peoples' hearts as the best blogging platform in town, but that doesn't mean its core developers are resting on their laurels.

digg_url = 'hhttp://digg.com/tech_news/A_Flood_of_Mashups_Coming_OAuth_1_0_Released'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The distributed group of developers working on the Open Authentication spec OAuth have released what they hope will be the

Yahoo! today becomes the latest web BigCo to offer an API allowing developers to gain access to users' address books. Though the Address Book API was publicly launched today, it

After 18 months of negotiation, the Open Web Foundation, a group made up of 106 employees of Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, some small startups and their lawyers, today released a