If you like RPG Gaming + Human Interaction i suggest RuneScape Set in middle age time, you are a person who has many areas/skills that can be built up to make yourself the ultimate character that goes on quests, solves puzzles, and fights. Travel of different landscapes, travel the seas, plenty of items to collect and trade with other people, real people-from all over the world, and many of them are over the age of 18! what a plus to todays internet social network. It has free and subscription accounts. the free is decent, you can build your character to the ultimate, however you have very few quests and are limited to certain areas of the map. The subscription is only $5 monthly. Provides quite alot of entertainment.

Another site interesting is The Slogan Generator type in any word and it will generate a famous slogan with your word. Its quite amusing.

Twitter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Launched July 13, 2006

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific.

Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the USA, Canada, and India, as well as a UK number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.

Origin

Twitter began as a research and development project inside San Francisco start-up company Obvious, LLC in March 2006. It was initially used internally by the company, and officially launched in October 2006.[2] The service rapidly gained popularity and in March 2007 won the 2007 South by Southwest Web Award in the blog category.[3] Jack Dorsey, widely acknowledged as the man behind the concept of Twitter, gave the following playful acceptance speech at SXSW: “We’d like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did!”

In April 2007, Obvious, LLC spun off the service as a separate entity under the name Twitter, Inc.,[4] with Jack Dorsey as its CEO.

Prominent users

Many organizations (such as the Los Angeles Fire Department⁵) have embraced the technology and put it to use in situations such as the October 2007 California wildfires.

Prominent Twitter users include U.S. presidential candidates Ron Paul,[6] John Edwards, Barack Obama,[7] and Hillary Clinton.[8]

Higher education is also using the technology to relay important information to students in a more timely manner. Such is the case with The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering. [9]

Copycats

Due to Twitter’s success, there have emerged a number of sites that imitate its concept but add country-specific services (e.g., frazr) or combining the micro-blogging facilities with other services, such as filesharing (e.g., Pownce).

In May 2007, one source counted as many as 111 such “Twitter-lookalikes” internationally.[10]

Reactions

In 2007, Twitter began experiencing numerous challenges related to its growing user base. The Wall Street Journal wrote, “These social-networking services elicit mixed feelings in the technology-savvy people who have been their early adopters. Fans say they are a good way to keep in touch with busy friends. But some users are starting to feel ‘too’ connected, as they grapple with check-in messages at odd hours, higher cellphone bills and the need to tell acquaintances to stop announcing what they’re having for dinner.”[11]

Security

The first Twitter security vulnerability was reported on April 7, 2007 by Nitesh Dhanjani. The problem was due to Twitter using the SMS message originator as the authentication of the user’s account. Nitesh used fakemytext.com to spoof a text message, whereupon Twitter posted the message on the victim’s page. This vulnerability can only be used if the victim’s phone number is known.[12] Within a few weeks of this discovery, Twitter introduced an optional PIN that its users can specify to authenticate SMS-originating messages.

Technology

Twitter is written in Ruby on Rails.[13] Twitter achieved approximately 98% uptime in 2007, or about 6 full days of downtime.14 Twitter’s downtime is particularly noticeable during events popular with the technology industry, such as the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo keynote address.16

INTRODUCTION Adapted from Explaining OAuth, published on September 05, 2007 by Eran Hammer-Lahav

A Little Bit of History OAuth started around November 2006, while Blaine Cook was working on the Twitter OpenID implementation. He got in touch with Chris Messina looking for a way to use OpenID together with the Twitter api to delegate authentication. They met with David Recordon, Larry Halff, and others at a CitizenSpace OpenID meeting to discuss existing solutions. Larry was looking into integrating OpenID for Ma.gnolia Dashboard Widgets. After reviewing exiting OpenID functionality, as well as other industry practices, they came to the conclusion that there was no open standard for api access delegation. The conversation continued online and off for a few months.

In April 2007, a Google group was created with a small group of implementers to write a proposal for an open protocol. It turned out that this problem wasn’t unique to OpenID and when DeWitt Clinton from Google caught wind of the project, he expressed his interest in supporting the effort, if only as a stakeholder. In July 2007 the team drafted an initial specification and the group was opened to anyone interested in contributing. On October 3rd, 2007 the OAuth Core 1.0 final draft was released.

What is it For? Many luxury cars today come with a valet key. It is a special key you give the parking attendant and unlike your regular key, will not allow the car to drive more than a mile or two. Some valet keys will not open the trunk, while others will block access to your onboard cell phone address book. Regardless of what restrictions the valet key imposes, the idea is very clever. You give someone limited access to your car with a special key, while using your regular key to unlock everything.

Everyday new website offer services which tie together functionality from other sites. A photo lab printing your online photos, a social network using your address book to look for friends, and APIs to build your own desktop application version of a popular site. These are all great services – what is not so great about some of the implementations available today is their request for your username and password to the other site. When you agree to share your secret credentials, not only you expose your password to someone else (yes, that same password you also use for online banking), you also give them full access to do as they wish. They can do anything they wanted – even change your password and lock you out.

This is what OAuth does, it allows the you the User to grant access to your private resources on one site (which is called the Service Provider), to another site (called Consumer, not to be confused with you, the User). While OpenID is all about using a single identity to sign into many sites, OAuth is about giving access to your stuff without sharing your identity at all (or its secret parts).

OAuth and OpenID OAuth is not an OpenID extension and at the specification level, shares only few things with OpenID – some common authors and the fact both are open specification in the realm of authentication and access control. ‘Why OAuth is not an OpenID extension?’ is probably the most frequently asked question in the group. The answer is simple, OAuth attempts to provide a standard way for developers to offer their services via an api without forcing their users to expose their passwords (and other credentials). If OAuth depended on OpenID, only OpenID services would be able to use it, and while OpenID is great, there are many applications where it is not suitable or desired. Which doesn’t mean to say you cannot use the two together. OAuth talks about getting users to grant access while OpenID talks about making sure the users are really who they say they are. They should work great together.

Who is Going to Use it? If you are a web developer – you, we hope. At the time of writing this, we expect implementations from (in alphabetical order) Digg, Jaiku, Flickr, Ma.gnolia, Plaxo, Pownce, Twitter, and hopefully Google, Yahoo, and others soon to follow.

Is OAuth a New Concept? No. OAuth is the standardization and combined wisdom of many well established industry protocols. It is similar to other protocols currently in use (Google AuthSub, aol OpenAuth, Yahoo BBAuth, Upcoming api, Flickr api, Amazon Web Services api, etc). Each protocol provides a proprietary method for exchanging user credentials for an access token or ticker. OAuth was created by carefully studying each of these protocols and extracting the best practices and commonality that will allow new implementations as well as a smooth transition for existing services to support OAuth.

An area where OAuth is more evolved than some of the other protocols and services is its direct handling of non-website services. OAuth has built in support for desktop applications, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and of course websites. Many of the protocols today use a shared secret hardcoded into your software to communicate, something which pose an issue when the service trying to access your private data is open source.

Is It Ready? OAuth Core 1.0, the main protocol has reached the final draft stage. It is stable and ready to be implemented. It is not labeled as final to allow time for developers to interact with the spec and provide feedback. Libraries are already available for many popular platforms such as php, Rails, Python, .NET, C, and Perl. We expect most upcoming work to focus on implementations and the development of extensions to the protocol.

this looks nice

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Vocalo.org is this cool social networking site that is also a radio station, it take audio from everywhere then mish-mashes it together.

check out www.carart.com – very cool site just launched