Facebook Also Adds OAuth For Third-Party Mobile Development

Buried in Facebook’s many announcements and changes at its f8 developer conference last week was a couple slight modifications to its mobile documentation. The company added support for an open standard that allows secure data-sharing, called OAuth, and it changed some phrasing around the iPhone SDK.

OAuth, or Open Authorization, lets users share private information like photos and friend lists from one site to another without having to share their username and passwords. Facebook implemented the 2.0

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