According to an article on Australia's iTnews, Google has espoused a new security standard for its online widget platform called the "OAuth System."  Google's previous security system was a in-house, but their move to support the OAuth system, an open standard, has been made to allow sites to share user information for mash-up apps securely and at the same time let users to authorize what bits of data are disclosed.  The move to OAuth gives Google the hope that their iGoogle widgets platform can expand to other web-based platforms in a secure fashion.

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