Natterings

Does OAuth make sense for iPhone clients?

Ben Gottleib doesn’t think so. For web services you don’t trust, maybe. But “If the user doesn’t want you using their credentials, they can simply not launch or delete you.” (I had asked him about this after the Chicago CocoaHeads meeting last Tuesday.) I find this ironic since I am using his Twitter+OAuth Source and Example for iPhone.

I also stayed up late one evening with Karl Adam’s MPOAuthMobile which is pre-configured to work with several OAuth providers : Yahoo, Google, Freebase, Fire Eagle, Get Satisfaction, Netflix, SoundCloud, TripIt, Proofile, Iron Money, and SmugMug.

Yeah, I never heard of Iron Money or Proofile before, either.