Is this Sign-in-with-Twitter supposed to be to sign into other sites using your twitter account, as in "sign into myhealthrecord.com using your twitter account"?
I don't think that's secure - OAuth is not an authentication protocol. Dirk. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Ben Clemens <bclem...@currentmedia.com>wrote: > The nascar situation is akin to the difficulty in handling share > (digg/facebook/email/myspace/buzz/etc/etc) options for content. Everyone has > it on content pages, but it’s almost impossible to guess which subset of > sharing sites you can show without overwhelming people (actually there is a > hack to figure out which of them have been visited, but anyway...). Really > all you can do is choose 3-5 of them that work well and provide a link for > more. > > For choosing which identity providers, that means I’ll pick Google > openid+oauth, Facebook, and Twitter to feature (and offer others > secondarily). It’s unfair and leaves out major players, but at least I know > those offer my users solid authentication and pass basic user attributes so > I can make an account for them without a lot of trouble. Hopefully as people > start to use these the most reliable, seamless experience will win and > identity will settle around a few major players. > > > On 4/16/09 4:21 PM, "Chris Messina" <chris.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just wanted to point out that Twitter is now offering sign-in with one's > Twitter account using OAuth: > > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter > > And, as if we didn't have enough buttons for the NASCAR [1], you can now > use Twitter's button: > > http://twibs.com/oAuthButtons.php > > Oh, and it might interest some folks that there are interesting > conversation going on about Twitter's authorization interface: > > > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/0a1739326384dac6?pli=1 > > Chris > > [1] http://tr.im/fj_openid_nascar > > > _______________________________________________ > user-experience mailing list > user-experie...@openid.net > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/user-experience > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---