<story><title>Amazon Announces Login with Amazon</title><url>http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=1824961&amp;highlight=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hemancuso</author><text>I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL &amp;#38; domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme.&lt;p&gt;That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don&apos;t love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US-focused companies who will be excited to have Google &amp;#38; Amazon as the two default OAuth authentication providers. If nothing else, it&apos;s much more adult than Twitter/Facebook. Oh, and Amazon has your credit card info and a great platform for SaaS billing :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arscan</author><text>Regarding the URL: Amazon (and just about every public company in the US) outsources the investor relations portion of their site, because it is easier to do so than to integrate the feeds mandated by the SEC on their public site themselves (stock quote, press releases, sec filings, etc).  There are 2 major competitors in this space, and the one that Amazon chose has these ugly URLs.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m surprised that they haven&apos;t made this better since that platform (phoenix) was designed in the mid-2000s.  I presume that nobody really cares enough to put money into migrating it to a url scheme that is more sensible... the site exists to satisfy the SEC, and serious investors get their news/stock data from other sources anyhow.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Announces Login with Amazon</title><url>http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=1824961&amp;highlight=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hemancuso</author><text>I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL &amp;#38; domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme.&lt;p&gt;That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don&apos;t love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US-focused companies who will be excited to have Google &amp;#38; Amazon as the two default OAuth authentication providers. If nothing else, it&apos;s much more adult than Twitter/Facebook. Oh, and Amazon has your credit card info and a great platform for SaaS billing :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>&amp;#62;I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL &amp;#38; domain for the Amazon press releases.&lt;p&gt;It seems like it is outsourced investor relations.  Funny thing is that if you go to the bare domain, it redirects you to ccbn.com, which doesn&apos;t work because CCBN (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network) got bought out in January and apparently killed their domain too.  That&apos;s pretty shoddy.</text></comment>