Blaine Cook (programmer)
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Blaine Cook is a Canadian software engineer, now living and working in London, UK. He is the principal co-author of the OAuth
OAuth
OAuth is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically username and password.OAuth allows users to hand out tokens instead of credentials to their data hosted by a...

 and Webfinger
Webfinger
WebFinger is an Internet protocol that aims to identify people by their E-mail addresses. It is an extension of the Finger protocol used by the unix finger utility to identify users of a particular computer in a network...

 specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

. He has also worked for Yahoo on the Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle is a Yahoo! owned service that acts as a store for a user's location. It was created at Yahoo Brickhouse by a team which included among others Tom Coates, Simon Willison, and Seth Fitzsimmons....

 project and for BT Group
BT Group
BT Group plc is a global telecommunications services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest telecommunications services companies in the world and has operations in more than 170 countries. Through its BT Global Services division it is a major supplier of...

 as part of their Open Source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 Osmosoft team. He is now a freelance developer.

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