OAuth, OpenId and why they are two different things.

Posted February 16th, 2009 | Published in Digital identity

OpenId gives you one login for multiple sites. OAuth lets you authorise one website to retrieve data from another.

This link gives an excellent overview of OpenID and OAuth and the differences between them:

http://softwareas.com/oauth-openid-youre-barking-up-the-wrong-tree-if-you-think-theyre-the-same-thing