You may have read my recent (rather monolithic) post on Getting Started with OAuth.

Web Resource Authorisation Protocol (WRAP) is a set of so-called “profiles” for OAuth, which contribute a substantial number of additional features as well as vast simplification of the bloated (yet finally secure) authentication mechanism.

WRAP is currently in the very early stages of development as a protocol specification. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not gaining traction already, and beginning to make an impact.

Last week when I had a bit of a look at Google Wave, a lot of people mentioned how it didn’t really seem like a complete product, something that was a bit of a let-down.

I’ve been having a bit of a think, and I think I can see where this one’s going.

I read a comment on a blog earlier today by Robert Scoble, and he had it exactly right when he said FriendFeed had it nearly right before they got absorbed by Facebook. I think the future is going to look a lot more like FriendFeed than anyone dares to think. Here’s why: