XAuth Explained: Solving a Real Social Net Problem You May Never Know You Had

XAuth, the supposed competitor to Facebook Connect that made headlines yesterday, turns out to be less a competitor and more powerful than anyone realized. We spoke to one of its key creators, Seth Sternberg, who's also Meebo's CEO to find out more.

XAuth was designed to solve a problem that Meebo itself was having. Meebo, which provides a sort of backbone that Web sites can add to their existing structure in order to rapidly add in social networking functionality, needed to know which...