July 7th, 2011

WordPress.com Gains Support For OAuth2, Dedicated Developer Portal

In a blog post on the WordPress.com blog, Automattic‘s Justin Shreve this morning acknowledged his employer’s aspirations to turn WordPress.com into more of a platform than a mere Web-based blogging software service.

The company has added support for authentication protocol OAuth 2 to WordPress.com and is debuting a brand new developer portal. → Read More

August 30th, 2010

OAuthpocalypse Tomorrow: Twitter Ending Basic Auth Support At 8 AM PT

A couple weeks ago, we noted the start of the “OAuthpocalypse” — that is, Twitter’s move to make all developers use OAuth rather than basic authentication for their third-party apps. Twitter expected some bumps as they were going to be continuously shutting stuff down and progressively limiting rates. That all ends tomorrow, as basic auth support will be officially killed off at 8 AM… → Read More

August 9th, 2010

Gowalla Finally Releases Their Check-In API With Some Nice Tools And OAuth 2 Support

You could make an argument that one of the things holding back the growth of location-based service Gowalla was that there was no full API support. After all, rival Foursquare has had their full API rocking and rolling since last November. But after today, you won’t be able to make that argument anymore.

Gowalla has just formally announced that their Check-In API is now available to all… → Read More