New Hacks for Hackers
BBAuth just the beginning
During last month’s Hack Day, the Yahoo! Developer Network announced two cool code releases.
Who’s whom?
The first is called Browser-Based Authentication, or BBAuth for short. That may sound complicated and geeky, but it’s really a simplifying tool. It allows those Yahoo! users who use your tools a way to sign in using their existing Yahoo! IDs, instead of having to create a separate account.
For a solid run down of BBAuth and its capabilities, check out Dan Theurer and Matt McAllister’s video intro:
Visit the Yahoo! Developer Network for more detail »
A picture’s worth…
Using BBAuth (see above), the new Yahoo! Photos API enables you to create applications that allow your users to access and manipulate their photos. Visit the Yahoo! Developer Network for more detail »
For more info on these and other new developer gizmos, check out the Yahoo Developer Network blog.
—Michael Mattis, Blog Editor
| Post Comment | categories:: Yahoo! News
October 12th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Wow it’s nice.. just got to find diffrent ideas to use it some where now :-p
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