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Twitter, OAuth vulnerability, and service interconnectedness

It’s ironic that the day that my post on integrating Twitter OAuth (and other third-party authentication) appeared that a vulnerability in OAuth would be identified.
I didn’t write about the potential hassle that site owners will endure when third-party services become unavailable due to bugs or other problems, but it’s a huge consideration for web developers. [...]

Read the full article → April 23, 2009

Use Twitter, Facebook, OAuth or OpenID for login?

Now that OAuth is officially available for accessing the Twitter API, it’s technically possible to use Twitter’s services as an authentication method for logging into your web site. In fact, when setting up a new Twitter OAuth application, there’s an option suggesting that very use.

This is not a new concept, but with the recent proliferation [...]

Read the full article → April 22, 2009

Twitter status link change

I’m not sure if this is a bug or a permanent change (or if I’ve been doing it wrong since the beginning) but I recently had to change all of the Twitter status links on this site and on Squidoo. If you have links on your site for updating allowing visitors to quickly add Twitter [...]

Read the full article → April 2, 2009

Geeking out

I’ve enjoyed geeking out the past few days, but the example I wanted to show today is taking longer than I had expected, so I have to delay that one. I’m going to do more mini-tutorials and examples over the next few weeks, so stay tuned.
If you’re new to this site, please take a look [...]

Read the full article → March 26, 2009

No man is an island

No man is an island, but your web site … it might be. Technically your web site is supposed to be a part of the grand interconnectedness of the web. You’ve done the SEO, provided great outgoing links and you’ve even built a few doorway pages to help people find your site. But they’re still [...]

Read the full article → February 23, 2009

Email is so 20th century

I’m sure by now you’ve heard that email is dead. Most of the time when people talk about the death of email, it’s not about the death of email as a tool for interpersonal communications. We all still use email everyday to communicate with coworkers, friends, family and it works great.
The problem relates to communicating [...]

Read the full article → February 20, 2009