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With OAuth 1.0 Draft due out next week, I wanted to introduce the protocol and try to help people understand what it is and what it is trying to solve. OAuth (pronounced “Oh Auth") is mentioned is many blog posts, usually in the context of OpenID and Open Social Networks. While OAuth can play an important role in helping open up closed communities, it is not specific to social networks. The short(est) explanation of OAuth is ‘An API access delegation protocol’. Now for the longer one.

"Now, Tumblr, a month-old mixed media microblogging service might kick it up a notch even higher if it catches on in kid culture. (50,000+ users already)...”

"What are they talking about? A site called Twitterverse ranks the keywords people use in messages: 1: “Twitter”; 2: “Going”; 3: “Lunch”…

"It was just the other day when I mentioned that we need a visual way to see what topics people Twitter about, something like tracking popular keywords, the word burst type of thing. Well this has been answered by delving into the Twitterverse, see the word bursts for the day or yesterday in the cloud. Track the Twitterverse throughout the day to see how topics change over the day, or how their impact lessen or grow.”

Twitter is “a sophisticated, device-agnostic, social message routing system that nobody realizes they need until they try it,” Stone says.

...Jack Dorsey has long been obsessed with status. [I’M WRITING THE LEAD TO MY COLUMN] Not in the snob-appeal sense, but status as in “where are you and what are you doing.”

"I like its simplicity. Some people are asking for comments, but I don’t think Tumblr need them. It’s more like a personal ‘River of News‘. The feeds import feature reminds me of Emily Chang’s My Data Stream. With Tumblr you can add ad hoc posts to the stream.”