Uno de Waal

Uno de Waal’s online space covering everything about web2.0, social networks and internet related developments in South Africa and how it fits in with the rest of the world.

Gmail OAuth


This entire fiasco with Gmail is going to do wonders for OAuth. There’s no publicity like bad publicity. I claimed it a while back and I still firmly believe that if the services make your data portable through proper authenication standards, you wouldn’t need to screenscrape it with a user/pass.

W00t oAuth.