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Twitter Temporarily Disables OAuth for Security Reasons

Twitter recently released a product called "Sign in with Twitter," which is basically the social network's answer to Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, etc. It's based on OAuth, but there's a security problem with OAuth. In fact, Twitter and Yahoo have both disabled OAuth support temporarily. Biz Stone talks a little bit about it on the official Twitter Blog:

Twitter's Answer to Facebook Connect

Twitter recently released a product called "Sign in with Twitter," which is bascially the social network's answer to Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, etc. Sign in with Twitter is based on OAuth and lets users sign in to third-party sites using their Twitter accounts, much like Facebook Connect does with your Facebook account. Presumably you can now Tweet a link to an article without leaving the article page if it's on a site that has sign in with Twitter enabled.

Google Lets You Take Contacts With You

Google has begun implementing Portable Contacts, an open standard that aims to make it easier to access your contacts in a secure way when sites ask you to invite friends when you sign up.