Posts in the OAuth category

Flickr now supports OAuth. This is an open standard for authentication, which is now fully supported by the Flickr API.

I’d like to officially announce a new upcoming book from Yahoo! Press and O’Reilly, “Programming Social Applications.”

Overall, 30 hacks were registered and 22 were demoed at the second Hack U at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Mumbai). Amchi Mumbai!

The SodaHead social-polling site now enables users to register or login with their Yahoo! account(s). Here’s how it works, as described in this guest blog post.

Yahoo! provides three levels to control or revoke access to your protected Yahoo! data: general OAuth, Updates API-specific, and YAP application.

Yahoo!’s Allen Tom got a chance to speak about the OAuth industry-standard API for authorization at the Facebook f8 conference’s Open Standards panel.

The days of having to register a new account, remember a new password, fill out a profile, and find your friends — just to use a new website — are quickly coming to an end.

Want to use two-legged OAuth to sign a request? Here’s a super-stripped-down example of how to do it.

Today, we are launching a new feature called the Create Consumer Key API. A few weeks ago we posted a sneak peek. This blog post touches again on what it is, who should use it, and adds links to API documentation and example integrations.

We’re happy to announce that The Huffington Post now accepts Yahoo! OpenID, allowing over 350 million active Yahoo! users to easily sign in to HuffPo with just a couple of clicks. OpenID can streamline the new user experience for your website too.

Today we’re happy to announce that Yahoo OpenID now supports Attribute Exchange, which enables users to share their Yahoo Profile data when they sign into sites using their Yahoo ID.

Reminder: All implementations of Pre-Rev A OAuth will stop working on Monday, November 9th and should be upgraded to the new standard by all application developers to complete the OAuth flow.

Yahoo! engineers love hacking their iPhones, and that’s why we’re happy to announce that the Yahoo! OpenID and OAuth services are now iPhone optimized! Yahoo! users no longer need to pinch and spread when signing into websites with their Yahoo! OpenID, or when authorizing data sharing using OAuth. OpenID streamlines the sign in and registration [...]

We’re very happy to announce that we’ve now updated our OAuth UI to be more contextual and streamlined. We’ve added context for why the user is prompted for their password, and we’ve formatted the UI to be displayable in a small popup window.

All Yahoo! services using OAuth have been upgraded to the new OAuth 1.0a version of the protocol, resolving the session fixation security issue. The upgraded services include all Y!OS APIs (Contacts, Updates, Status, and Social Directory) and Fire Eagle.