Analysis How the OAuth Security Battle Was Won, Open Web Style Last Friday was a hot day in Sebastopol, California. Eran Hammer-Lahav rolled into town hours after finding out that there was a security hole in his pet project for the last few months, a new way to use Twitter to log in to third party sites using the OAuth protocol instead of user names and passwords. Working as the Open Web Evangelist at… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Events Guide ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 25 April 2009 Are you itching to get out of the office and network with your peers? In a new feature on ReadWriteWeb, we'll provide a weekly roundup of upcoming Social Web events. We'll publish this every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans. Know of an event taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or… Andrew Lobo View comments
Features Weekly Wrapup: State of the Smartphone, Google Me, Oprah on Twitter, And More... In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the state of the smartphone industry, study new stats showing Facebook's international market penetration, review 'The Oprah Effect' on Twitter, check out a new product called Google Me, analyze the closure of Web 1.0 icon GeoCities, and more… Richard MacManus View comments
Twitter Troys: One Twitter Script to Rule Them All Over the past year, all the major tech blogs have done round-up articles of great Greasemonkey scripts to use with Twitter (including us). What this says about Twitter's native functionality we aren't sure, but we know we've had upwards of 10 separate scripts installed and active at different times. All that is going to end, at least for the… Social Phil Glockner View comments
Apple 1 Billion Apps Later - Here Are Some of Our Favorites Today, Apple announced that its customers have now downloaded a whopping one billion applications from its App Store. Here at ReadWriteWeb, quite a few of us have iPhones, so we thought that this would be a good time to feature some of our favorite apps. We download and test a lot of iPhone apps, but here are the ones that have stood the test of… Mobile Frederic Lardinois View comments