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Tickets to Twitter OAuth Closed Beta sell out in 2hr 28mins

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Think there’s slight market demand, maybe? ;-) OAuth looks and feels to users a whole lot like the new Facebook Connect, or OpenID login. Why go with OAuth instead? Facebook Connect is a proprietary system that hoards all the user data over the long term and takes too much control over sites that use it. OpenID can’t be used by desktop apps and is too often ugly enough that you’d rather stay home than take it to a party. Enter OAuth, a technology that hopes to solve all those problems. - RWW