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Vimeo implemented OAuth support on their end, the announcement was made here.

Seems like the old web authentication methods are already marked as deprecated, however they still work 4 days later.  The deprecated methods are

• vimeo.auth.checkToken
• vimeo.auth.getFrob
• vimeo.auth.getToken

The new OAuth specific URLs are (Twitter alike):

Request Token: http://vimeo.com/oauth/request_token
User Authorization: http://vimeo.com/oauth/authorize
Access Token: http://vimeo.com/oauth/access_token

I noticed a big similarity between Vimeo’s and Flickr’s authentication API, and probably Flickr will do a switch soon as well, there’s no OAuth implementation on their end at the moment.

A thing I noticed is that the Vimeo API now requires the OAuth specific data and valid tokens which kind of forces everyone to switch to the OAuth tokens, instead of the old ones extracted via the deprecated methods.

Loopthing needs an unexpected code update because of this right after launching the authentication feature on our end last week, but I’m happy security has been tightened around the video hosting service.

Update: The OAuth specific URLs for Vimeo does not support SSL because of the improper setup of the  certificate and the weird redirects. In the best case you’ll get a 401 error with the message “Invalid nonce”.

I am excited to announce that the Loopthing social networking platform got an important update today, which mainly has something to do with professionals from the online environment providing consultancy services for SEO, SEM, online marketing and PR.

This major update is part of a long plan that Loopthing has ahead, and enables account managers to manage other businesses’ profiles on the Loopthing business network.

How this can be applied to your SEO, SEM, online marketing, PR consultancy/web development business?

Now you can pitch your customers about a new set of services you added to your business:

• submitting their business to Loopthing
• maintain this profile, where you both have control over the shared content

The reason why this should be included into your business plan is because your company doesn’t need to pay anything to get started, while you can charge your customers the activity you put into developing their Loopthing profile.

Building a profile on Loopthing is simple, the staff is helpful and there’s tips on the way while you use the site. Once you do it for a business, it will be very easy to do it for the other ones inside your portfolio.

Plus, this comes with no obligation from your customers, and they can take control over their accounts whenever they want.

This feature is very useful for some of your customers (probably all) who want to expose more of their brand online, and get seen all over the Internet. Loopthing is there to provide you with the ability to set up and manage profiles for other businesses, while they are still in control.

How can this help my SEO company?

Loopthing has a feature called “websites urls” which displays up to three urls on your customers business’ profile. These links are nofollow free, and you can link to the home page of the company that hired you or/and their blog.

There’s also a feature called “news feeds” where business owners can submit their blog/RSS feed as a news source, or even their Loopthing profile. This is very helpful because the “news feeds” page connects the Loopthing visitors with these pages as well.

There are also SEO related elements that we are currently working on which are going to enhance the effects of sharing your company’s information with the Loopthing visitors.

Why is so important for my customers to be on Loopthing?

Loopthing is a business networking platform which integrates elements of social networking, social media, branding and online marketing.

Joining a site like Loopthing, a service specifically tailored to businesses interacting with individuals, is the next logical step to take for an entrepreneur. This is because two-thirds of the internet users are now involved in a social networking or blogging activity [source: Nielsen wire].

And here’s the good part, Loopthing not only targets businesses, but provides a good share to individuals as well. These people can be easily converted into customers by being on the site.

Got questions?

Read the official blog post announcing the new features and let me know how it goes, I’d be more than happy to hear your comments and opinions.

If you’re getting an error like “403 Service Over Qps” or “ERR_403_SERVICE_OVER_QPS“, you’re probably playing with an API provided by the Mashery.com webservice.

Some of the sites serving their API content via Mashery are The Guardian, and compete.com. The trouble I have comes with compete.com, however, I’ve seen people dealing with theguardian.co.uk as well.

The reason why you are seeing this is probably because you are sending over too many requests in so little amount of time.  To prevent this from happening, you should check the API’s service limits, and also test it against the real possible limits, e.g. if they say 5 requests max per second, try 4 requests per seconds, the limit may be lower than documented.

This error also comes with a HTTP response code of 403, Forbidden.