Pattern praise

Two months ago, I called Twitter out on their insistence that developers use OAuth when authorising with Twitter while they themselves continued to use the password anti-pattern when they wanted to peek into third-party address books.

I'm happy to report that Twitter have since fixed this. If you go to the Find Friends portion of the "Who To Follow" section, you'll now be greeted with links that lead to correct authentication with LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.

Thanks, Twitteroonies!

Meanwhile, Flickr recently launched their own "Who to Follow" functionality. There is nary a password request in sight: they've implemented correct authentication right out of the gate for Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and Facebook.

Thanks, Flickroonies!

See? I'm not always bitching'n'moaning.

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