According to the proposed new features list for WordPress 2.7, OAuth should be coming to WordPress core.
This follows a tweet from Matt Mullenweg indicating his desire to add support for the protocol a month ago.
Today SoundCloud announced the availability of their API, which uses OAuth for authorization:
We develop using simple, proven, open standards and have built a RESTful API including oAuth, XML, JSON - available for all who want to engage. With the API you can access the entire SoundCloud service from your favorite tools and languages. We have [...]
Kellan Elliot-McCrea and Rabble presented Beyond Rest: Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub earlier today at OSCON in Portland. Aside from an interesting anecdote about FriendFeed’s polling habits against Flickr, the pair also revealed the consensus coming out of the XMPP Summit on how to perform OAuth token exchange over XMPP.
Kellan notes:
Defenese against MITM, and [...]
If you’re one of the lucky folks that’s been able to upgrade your iPhone (and activate it) to the 2.0 firmware, I encourage you to give the Pownce application a try, if only to see a real world example of OAuth in action (that link will open in iTunes).
Here’s how it goes in pictures:
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Hot on the heels of SmugMug adding OAuth to their API, Photobucket has done the same.
API documentation is available for using OAuth for end-user authentication (authorization).
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