dev: Google Accounts

Posted on | July 2, 2006 | No Comments

Google announces another interesting web-service aimed at developers of web-applications. Google Accounts is an authentication proxy enabling everybody to build local- and web-applications on top of Google’s user-management. in other words: visitors of your site could use their Google-(GMail-, GCalendar-, G…)-account-credentials to identify themselves on your website. since the interface’ specification looks pretty simple, I guess Google Accounts could become a common tool for user-authentication on the web – but only in addition to conventional user-registration, since nobody would like to alienate users not holding a Google-account. moreover, this service surely fuels Google-critics’ fires, as it’s remarkably similar to Microsoft’s infamous Passort…

 

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