OAuth Spec 1.0 = More Personal Mashups?

Your valet key for the web: Like the feature on many cars today where you give the parking attendant a special key to your car that gives him some, but not all, access to your vehicle. On the Web you now have your own keys to dozens of sites but how to best handle the mashup-style case of site A wants you to grant them access to get some data from site B? Ideally you don’t want to give site A your password to site B. OAuth aims to simplify this problem: “It allows you the User to grant access to your private resources on one site (which is called the Service Provider), to another site (called Consumer, not to be confused with you, the User).”

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OAuth Spec 1.0 = More Personal Mashups?

Not the same as OpenID, this standard is about promoting access to data between sites but with control over what is accessed. Could be very powerful if it is done right.

Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks

Strength in diversity...

Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks - Bokardo

How a social network benefits from the weak ties, those outside one's normal social network, to bring in new or additional information or knowledge.

Tagging and foldering

Another tilt at the ontology vs folksonomy approach...

Tagging and foldering « Jon Udell

Short but well worded, as ever with Jon's work, this gives a description of some pluses and minuses of using free tagging for metadata.

Test post to Blogger NOSMeLD

This is just a test post from Live Writer. Ignore this.