Comments on: Yahoo’s BBAuth Will Allow Better Mashups

By: sign

sign — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:19:24 +0000

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks for the great information.

By: Google does the mashup dance » JenIT

Google does the mashup dance » JenIT — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:43:46 +0000

[...] All of these are a sign that Google is staying current with the times. Yahoo! is moving in the same direction with everything from HackDay to an internal incubator to ongoing acquisitions of innovative mashup loving startups and the new BBAuth tool. Facebook is opening in even more ways. The mashup ethic is clearly no longer a fringe idea by idealistic small fries - it’s being embraced substantially by many of the web’s biggest players. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google does the mashup dance

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google does the mashup dance — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:01:42 +0000

By: Patrick Fitzgerald

Patrick Fitzgerald — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:16:19 +0000

I’ll echo what Ernest Nova wrote - instead of “Sign in or register for an account” why not tie into these additional auth services for the majority of users who are already using them: “Sign in, or sign in with Yahoo|Google, or register for an account”.

By: VentureBeat Wire » Mashery raises less than $1M for mashup controls; Yahoo’s BBAuth

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:29:29 +0000

[...] Techcrunch has a piece about this, noting few mashups involve user data from secure sites (banking, for example) because these sites protect the data via a log-in. BBAuth fixes that problem when it comes to accessing data locked up at Yahoo. Using the tools Yahoo provides, non-Yahoo applications can request a user to sign in to Yahoo and give permission for Yahoo user data to be sent to the non-Yahoo application. VentureBeat Community [...]

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Jones Apparel Hires Designer to Revamp Anne Klein Line « Stockbaggers — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:02:51 +0000

[...] Today Yahoo! also released a new product, BBAuth, or Browser-Based Authentication, which makes it possible for applications to use data stored on Yahoo!’s servers. “BBAuth also offers a Single Sign-On (SSO) facility so that existing Yahoo! users can use your services without having to complete yet another registration process.” Meaning, non-Yahoo! applications can use data saved by users provided the users gave permission. [...]

By: marble2

marble2 — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:15:03 +0000

very smart move by yahoo! we’ve been spending more time on their developer programs and they’ve built out a very robust offering and support system. bbauth is what passport could have been. firefly was a very smart team at mit and had their heads bolted on right for solving single sign-on/auth/privacy, but it dissapeared into microsoft’s confused corridor of web strategy. yahoo! has the membership and an open approach combined with buying the right companies.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:43:37 +0000

What the world would really need would be apis way easier to use to really spread the word.
~frank

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:35:48 +0000

Not good for business sites that require single-sign crossing multiple domain boundaries.

By: PI.Blog » Blog Archive » An interesting development in the identity2.0 / SSO world

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:01:36 +0000

[...] Yahoo has just released a new API-based service called Browser Based Authentication (BBAuth). In simple terms, what this means is that you can now ask your web users to log into your services using their Yahoo username/password. Tech Crunch notes in their coverage, that you can do this in a roundabout way with s3. Explore posts in the same categories: Technology News [...]

By: GigaOM » Yahoo looks outside for Mojo

GigaOM » Yahoo looks outside for Mojo — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:38:20 +0000

[...] Using this BBAuth, Yahoo can help create an ecosystem of third party apps. In addition, there is that 200 million Yahoo user base that can log into these applications. It could be a real developer magnet, and is getting kudos around the blogosphere. In addition, Flickr also released new APIs for Flickr and Upcoming alongside a Yahoo Mail API. The Mail API is significant in that it is the first of the web mail providers officially providing programmatic access to Mail. [...]

By: e-Fuze Mobile » Yahoo! Launches BBAuth

e-Fuze Mobile » Yahoo! Launches BBAuth — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:52:09 +0000

[...] Yahoo! has launched a new product dubbed BBAuth. The product will serve as a mechanism for non-Yahoo! applications to access proprietary user data in Yahoo!. BBAuth essentially works in two steps, firstly, the user authenticates, and secondly there are various APIs that allow data to be manipulated. For example, the Flickr API allows the user to tag, upload and modify photo descriptions via a third party application. Various other Yahoo! services will be supported shortly such as Yahoo! Mail. Example | Via Yahoo! BBAuth ShareThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Yahoo! Single Sign On APIs Release « Karma - Identity, Trust and Reputation on the Web

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:51:53 +0000

[...] Yahoo! has just released a new set of APIs for enabling SSO on the web. TechCrunch has a good review. There are two pieces to BBAuth. The first is a single sign on tool to authenticate the user. The second piece is a set of APIs to get into specific Yahoo services and interact with user data. For example, the Yahoo Photos API allows other applications to, among other things, upload photos, tag photos, and modify titles and descriptions. Yahoo is also opening up Yahoo Mail through BBAuth. [...]

By: Ernest Nova

Ernest Nova — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:17:16 +0000

It may be Hailstorm/passport reborn but there are millions of exitsingYahoo! users whose home page is set to, say, My Yahoo! and I would not mind a way to provide easier access to them without requiring the users to create yet another account on my site , still have some idea of who they are, and not have to worry about when they lose their passwords.

By: Saurier

Saurier — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:25:08 +0000

I think (haven’t used it) Google also is offering a similar service: Google Account Authentication

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:11:30 +0000

This is probably the 3th system like like…SixApart, Microsoft Passport and now Yahoo!…The issue with such systems really is that users don’t really want parties that don’t add any value to the transaction to participate/intermediate.

I guess its users inherent distrust of brokers and the deep rooted expectation that brokers are gonna want to get a cut…In web transaction in terms of privacy.

By: Cody Mays

Cody Mays — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:10:33 +0000

This system does sound a lot like OpenID. I am still tempted to write a simlar system though. Not because I want everyone to use it, but because it would be cool to do.

The question I have about all these new “open user account” systems that are popping up is this:
I am still going to have to have multiple accounts for multiple sites because a site by MS is not going to use Yahoo’s user info. I also wonder how well my data is going to be guarded.

Cody Mays
http://www.threadbound.com

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:21:30 +0000

I agree with OpenID http://openid.net/ , I think it’s a great system to use.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:22:02 +0000

Microsoft seems to be taking a completly opposite direction from Yahoo! and Google - client based identity management through CardSpaces. I think I like MS’s direction much more.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:24:57 +0000

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, eBay… Single-sign on… YAWN

Why not openID?? http://openid.net/ There are emerging standards that could be made to work with some TLC and a marketing push. As the link Al points to, this is just building identity “silos”.

Annoying. Underwhelming.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:01:12 +0000

BBAuth is fundamentally different from MS Passport in that it can be used with other sign-on solutions, it is not bound to a credit card or personal information, and it does not lock-in developers or users.

Besides that…it’s free

By: Al

Al — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:55:00 +0000

Dick (A guy that really understands id/auth) sums it up nicely http://identity20.com/?p=79

By: maulin

maulin — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:43:58 +0000

If this is just a sign in feature like passport I think yahoo is late. but I think yahoo will let other web 2.0 apps get involve and use yahoo data fron photos, flickr, travel etc.

By: mikep

mikep — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:30:53 +0000

What functionality will this have over something like passport?

By: Jeffrey McManus

Jeffrey McManus — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:29:45 +0000

Matt, eBay has actually had a third-party developer authentication scheme in production for some time now. More details: http://mcmanus.typepad.com/gri.....ches_.html