I will be using the oauth authentication for applications, however I plan on proxying everything though my service so that I can attach the iphone application as a device on my service and also record every message posted. Is it reasonable to do this? I won't be storing the password - but for a variety of reasons I am not keen on using objective-c oauth libraries. - Paul Kinlan

Is there a sign-up page built for iphone? if a user downloads the application but doesn't have an account I would like to point them to friendfeed.com/iphone/ or something similar so that they can create an account. I can't see one at friendfeed.com/iphone/ - Paul Kinlan

That should be fine to perform the actual OAuth call on your server as long as the password is not stored on the iPhone or on your server. You are introducing another layer of latency though. We don't yet have a sign up page built for the mobile experience. - Benjamin Golub

To be fair, I am still toing and froing between what is best, I can always retrospectively post to my service - or I can just develop friendboo the friendboo site to simply reflect the group... my main stumbling block is the oauth clients for the iphone (but I might roll my own since I can miss out part of the process now). - Paul Kinlan