In the past five days or so I've seen three different posts on the web where somebody has either confused OpenID and OAuth or expressed confusion as to how they differ. I'm not going to name names or point to URLs. I'd prefer to try to fix the problem.

Therefore, here's a simple, and hopefully clear and accurate, guide to the purposes of and differences between the two systems. If I had a video camera, I'd act out the sock puppet version for you. But I don't, so you have to read this instead.

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Topics: technology/oauth, technology/openid

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