For those of with keen eyes you might have all ready noticed this, but we have added a new gadget on the right hand side of your settings page (*login required) titled API Authorization Key. This is your own personal key which you can share with a 360voice API powered site to prove ownership of your blog.
This was developed for those API Ninjas and API Samurais looking for a way to validate you actually owned the gamertag you were submitting to their tools. That is not to say that everyone is going to lock down their tools so you can't check out your friends information on growing list of community tools out there, but recently TX Eegras built a gateway tool that you can use to check if a gamer has badges you have selected as requirements to join your challenge. Without checking ownership, you could just enter my gamertag (shameless plug to raise my ranking!) to recieve the code to join a challenge which was supposed to be locked down to the Community Experts for example.
So as the API warriors conquer new ground with their tools, we are doing our best to help them on this journey. You might have guessed, if you wish to start validating the new API Authorization Keys right away on your community tool, just head on over to the API Documentation for more details on the new API 360voice.gamertag.authenticate
This will be an AWESOME tool for my next project... THANKS!!!
Posted by: Fafhrdd | May 15, 2008 at 11:45 AM