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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>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 it’s 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. <BR>
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For choosing which identity providers, that means I’ll pick Google openid+oauth, Facebook, and Twitter to feature (and offer others secondarily). It’s 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.<BR>
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On 4/16/09 4:21 PM, "Chris Messina" <<a href="chris.messina@gmail.com">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Just wanted to point out that Twitter is now offering sign-in with one's Twitter account using OAuth:<BR>
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<a href="http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter">http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter</a><BR>
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And, as if we didn't have enough buttons for the NASCAR [1], you can now use Twitter's button:<BR>
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<a href="http://twibs.com/oAuthButtons.php">http://twibs.com/oAuthButtons.php</a><BR>
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Oh, and it might interest some folks that there are interesting conversation going on about Twitter's authorization interface:<BR>
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/0a1739326384dac6?pli=1">http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/0a1739326384dac6?pli=1</a><BR>
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[1] <a href="http://tr.im/fj_openid_nascar">http://tr.im/fj_openid_nascar</a><BR>
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