Regarding passwords -- I completely agree. I thought long and hard about how to allow people to claim a username on Delancey without ever asking for their del.icio.us password. The compromise was a "claim" system whereby they could set up a new password for Delancey, and then use a bookmark in their del.icio.us account to verify they are who they say they are. That said, I need to do an even better job of emphasizing that their Delancey password *should not* be the same as their del.icio.us password. (I only store a one-way hash of it anyway, but I don't want to even come close to the del.icio.us password.)
As far as del.icio.us adding this functionality -- cool. It would obviate the need for Delancey, of course, but del.icio.us is clearly the best place for this functionality. As it stands, I think Delancey is best considered a useful tool and tech demo and a testament to the power of the openness of del.icio.us. Interestingly, I didn't use the del.icio.us API at all in building Delancey. Not that I didn't try, but it turned out that I got far more mileage out of the JSON feeds and form POSTs than I did with the API. I'm all in favor of your ideas about a way of proxy authentication. Check out OpenID -- there may be some potential in there. Coincidentally, I'm working on a generic distributed identity engine as my next project on unto.net, and I'm definitely going to expose parts of it as OpenID. Best, -DeWitt On 11/29/05, joshua schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DeWitt Clinton wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I recently ran across the delicious-discuss thread on keeping track of > >which links are clicked on most frequently. As it turns out, I just > >released a client/server application called Delancey that enhances > >del.icio.us to do just that. I'll be posting the technical details > >regarding the implementation and source code in the next day or two, > >but until then, you may want to simply try it out and see. > > > >The Delancey application can be found at: > > > > http://delancey.unto.net/ > > > >Suggestions and comments always appreciated. Thanks, and best regards! > > > > > > Looks neat. Some observations: > > 1) I'm still freaked out about putting my userid and password into > random forms. > I floated this proposal earlier: > http://lists.del.icio.us/pipermail/discuss/2005-September/003912.html > > 2) We are planning to do click-tracking in delicious after the current > round of changes are done. Presumably this will be exposed via the API. > > Joshua > > -- > joshua schachter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://del.icio.us/joshua > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
