What is OAuth?

“An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simpleand standard method from desktop and web applications”

And now you can use it with the Google Gadget Platform (iGoogle, Web Google Gadgets and Google Desktop) and that is a good thing because it means you now can rest easy that Google will not know of your data if you don`t want them too and because that also means you can do Mashlets of Google own Services Gadgets.

For more on this check out this post of David Meyer at CNET

Google adds OAuth to widget mashups

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