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		carsongross on July 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OAuth and API Providers: Come on guys. Oauth, even oauth2, seems like a classic open, design-by-loose-committee failure. Too many options and open ended decisions. My hope is that now that the basecamp2 API supports it, their implementation will become the reference standard.

johns on July 24, 2012 [–]

I hope there's some standardization too. You'd think there would be some coalescing around the most popular OAuth2 implementation: Facebook's. But even they weren't big enough to get people to settle on one.

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