

Among other things, these new hybrid systems aim to make the process less confusing for users, and to make OAuth sign-ins easier for applications that run on a phone or on the desktop rather than in a web browser. Google is also experimenting with an OpenID/OAuth hybrid called Step2, which builds on similar community efforts to build a new system based on those two technologies. The Google Code blog gives some more detail: "As is based on an internet standard, we plan to use it in the future with other e-mail providers that add support for this usage of OpenID and related standards like OAuth, such as in the Microsoft Live identity APIs."

Google is currently only offering OpenID logins for Yahoo users, the company says. So there's no poaching happening here, just an open door policy on Yahoo's end, and the implementation of one of Yahoo's APIs on Google's end. With this simple-to-implement tip, you can make team collaboration quick and painless.The same type of third-party login is possible using your Google account, since Google exposes the information necessary to make that happen in its own OpenID APIs. Google has made the process of collaborating on documents incredibly easy. By breaking it down into smaller groups, you have more control over who can do what with the collaboration file/folder. When I share the file with the three groups, I could give the beta readers viewing-only rights, the editors editing rights, and the proofreaders commenting rights. For example: I could create a group of beta readers, a group of editors, and a group of proofreaders. If you have to break those permissions up, you should consider creating different groups that will be given different permissions.

