The social web welcomed a new open standard into its midst Wednesday with the release of OAuth, a user authentication protocol created by a disparate group of web programmers. OAuth involves concepts ...

As if social media wasn't already, well, social enough, a relatively new open protocol for securely sharing information between web sites, called OAuth, has received a major boost for broad adoption.

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