1st in Europe – Kwaga BirdsEye gets Gmail OAuth support
The Paris-based startup was a third-party developer tester and worked with Google’s Eric Sachs and team to fine tune the implementation of the protocol for both Gmail and Google apps accounts within Kwaga. The result is that subscribers to the service just need to type in their Gmail address, including Enterprise accounts (Google Apps for Your Domain) where they’ll be redirected to the Gmail dashboard and asked to grant access without ever revealing their password.
Kwaga BirdsEye is available from the company’s website and also from the Google Apps Marketplace.
Kwaga was founded in 2008 by Philippe Laval (founder and previously head of Sinequa, Enterprise semantic search engine vendor) and a team of software entrepreneur and computational linguistics specialists. The startup has won a number of French innovation awards (Oseo, Scientipole, Paris Innovation, Centre Français de l’innovation, Web 2.0), while both SeedCamp and Kima Ventures have provided seed-funding.