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If your thinking about supporting Open ID, so your users can use their MySpace, Google, Facebook, or another service identity provider you should consider https://rpxnow.com/. Integration is simple, it supports all the major service providers and adds some nice analytics on top. Save yourself some time and effort, integrate once and support them all.

Yahoo recently launched YQL http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ it provides developers with unique and compelling access to structured data. Instead of calling different web service interfaces that have limited inputs and limited outputs, you simply write a query. This is brilliant. As a developer I previously had to call multiple services, using different inputs, capture all the data [...]

Facebook connect offers a very real value. It allows third party web applications like Citysearch to interact with a users Facebook account. It means the user doesn’t have to create a Citysearch account to be a Citysearch user, and the user only needs to login to their Facebook account to use Citysearch functionality. Oauth and [...]