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It seems like hosting services are destined to change - at least, that was my first though when I visited a website of this company - RightScale.com provides a custom user interface / middle-layer for Amazon Web Services (AWS) making it extremly simple for everyone to setup & manage up to 1000 servers on AWS. Universal panacea for scaling headache? Hard to believe - but could be…

If only there wouldn’t be that “catch 22” with AWS… hmm…

I was more than happy to discover today a great initiative - an open standard for web API authorization called OAuth - its targeted at web developers and everyone designing and building their own Web API / Web Services (which, after all, are the very core of what we like to call web 2.0). Early adopters will include companies/brands like Digg, Jaiku or Flickr.

I remember several clients of ours, which were building Web API / Web Service with their own custom authorization method - incl. our own KreoLabs Message Service using custom API authorization method (similar to Google API’s method so hope its not that bad after all ). And after reading specs from OAuth I can tell you one thing - if I’d have a job of designing a WebService for a client right now, I’d go for OAuth. Its very professionally designed and extremly secure - and by being an open platform, it predict it will soon become a standard for WebService authorization.

Thank you for the whole OAuth team for great work - I hope that initiatives like this will get some serious buzz and eventually lead to secure, open web standards used across whole web.