Nsyght adds support for OAuth

Nsyght, a personal search tool, has announced support for OAuth as a consumer of Ma.gnolia‘s recently released OAuth Endpoint.

Geoffrey McCaleb has summarized the benefits:

What does that mean? Think of oauth as OpenID for data. Currently, if you wish to setup full bookmark syncing with your del.icio.us account, you need to provide us with your credentials. Hey, we are not going to skip town with that data or sell them to spammers, but how do YOU know that we aren’t?

In steps oauth. Our first target integration is with the excellent Ma.gnolia service. In fact, we owe a lot to our implementation to both Todd Sieling at Ma.gnolia (for getting us excited about oauth), and Andy Smith for providing a nice tidy library which was easy to extend for our use.

What does that mean for you? Well now you can sync your bookmarks with your Ma.gnolia account, and as other services around the web roll out oauth support, we will be able to hook into them rather quickly. We like easy things that bring great benefit, if only life was like that.