http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter

[Ben Clemens]

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 it¹s 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 I¹ll pick Google
openid+oauth, Facebook, and Twitter to feature (and offer others
secondarily). It¹s 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.messina at 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/0
> a1739326384dac6?pli=1
> 
> Chris
> 
> [1] http://tr.im/fj_openid_nascar

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