There's a whole chunk of the hacking session devoted to oAuth. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Isaiah Carew <[email protected]> wrote: > How so? What do you think will be the significance of chirp for desktop > OAuth? Was there an announcement that I missed? > > isaiah > http://twitter.com/isaiah > On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:30 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > Actually, we'll know the answers at Chirp or before. Chirp is the > watershed for Twitter and the developer ecosystem. Time as we know it > will be reckoned B.C. (Before Chirp) and A.D. (After Disclosures). ;-) > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Isaiah Carew <[email protected]> wrote: > > Leveling the playing field is "elephant in the room" easy: > > Immediately ignore the source parameter on all Basic Auth calls. Right > > now. It's a 5-second coding job. > > Twitter has announced plans (see @ev's announcement in Dec.) to do almost > > exactly that come June. Not quite instant gratification, but June is sooner > > than you think. > > But two big questions remain: > > 1. Will Twitter add OAuth additions that allow for alternative credential > > exchange? (in plain English: username/password on desktop) Raffi has > > hinted at this previously (source: details ), but few details have emerged. > > 2. Will Twitter overlook less-than-perfect implementations that improve UX? > > (i.e. screen scraping the PIN, internal browsers, etc.) So far these > > practices seem to be flying under the radar in a few clients, but will that > > change when the big guys enter the game? > > We'll know the answers in June. It should be fun to watch and make for some > > lively forum threads. Bring popcorn and stand clear of the flames. ;-) > > isaiah > > http://twitter.com/isaiah > > > > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > http://borasky-research.net > > "I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God." ~Alan Hovhaness > >
-- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net "I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God." ~Alan Hovhaness
