New Feature: Nsyght supports oauth
UncategorizedOver the weekend we quietly rolled out support for the oauth protocol. What is oauth?
An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
oauth.net
What does that mean? Think of oauth as OpenID for data. Currently, if you wish to setup full bookmark syncing with your del.icio.us account, you need to provide us with your credentials. Hey, we are not going to skip town with that data or sell them to spammers, but how do YOU know that we aren’t?
In steps oauth. Our first target integration is with the excellent Ma.gnolia service. In fact, we owe a lot to our implementation to both Todd Sieling at Ma.gnolia (for getting us excited about oauth), and Andy Smith for providing a nice tidy library which was easy to extend for our use.
What does that mean for you? Well now you can sync your bookmarks with your Ma.gnolia account, and as other services around the web roll out oauth support, we will be able to hook into them rather quickly. We like easy things that bring great benefit, if only life was like that.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 12:33 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
[…] a personal search tool, has announced support for OAuth as a consumer of Ma.gnolia’s recently released OAuth […]
Just thought I’d let you guys know this was what made me sign up for the service.
Now if only Twitter and last.fm implemented OAuth I could use it to add my friends.
Well done guys!
As Twitter are one of the authors of the oauth specification, I’m sure they will roll out official support soon.
As of now though, we can import your friends from twitter using our microformats support!
That just leaves Last.fm. No sign of support from them but I know Chris Messina has been vocal about them supporting it so who knows?
Thanks so much for your support.