June 2008
XTech 2008: Advanced OAuth Wrangling — IDEAlliance
by nhoizeyOAuth is poised to be one of most important new standards in 2008. A simple standardization of delegated token auth, OAuth makes it straightforward to offer and consume APIs for a class of data under represented in the current set of API offerings—data
February 2008
Publishers Try—Again—to Reach the Open Web: ACAP
by parmentierfAutomated Content Access Protocol (ACAP, www.the-acap.org) allows publishers to make their content visible and distributable over the open web, while attaching access policies. Technically, applying ACAP involves either altering the standard robots.txt file or embedding content permissions into HTML content itself.
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