Openid News & Articles

If you use OpenID as your authentication method for your website, there a potential flaw that you need to be aware of.

Welcome to the September installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Welcome to the February installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Everyone knows that there are idealists, and there are pragmatists, and the two don't mix. Right? Well, the world is rarely that black and white. Want proof? A key name in the history of open source and the open web has just gone to work for a company-devouring corporation.

Zoho (news, site) has taken its desire to integrate with Google to a new level. Along with single sign-on integration, Zoho now integrates with Google Docs.

Browser wars time! As they continue to evolve, it’s apparent that the long-standing few all have one goal in common: to become extensions of their users.

That may sound a little hokey, but it’s undeniable that the less thinking we have to do as we trawl the Web, the happier we are. Once again here to help shift the workload from user to browser is Mozilla (news, site), whose lab kicked out a solution called Weave several months ago. Essentially a beefed up password manager, the tool gets users into their preferred sites in one to zero clicks.

Last December, TypePad Connect was announced as a way to bring a new level of visibility into blog posts, comments and other action taking place on weblogs. The commenting system offered by TypePad allowed your blog to have threaded comments, commenter profile pictures and allowed blog owners to block spam comments and read/reply to comments within email.

The blogging platform provider has now announced that you can easily sign into TypePad Connect with less fuss by using an existing account you probably already have including Yahoo, Google, Blogger, AIM, Vox and many more.

We all love our micro-blogging applications. We Tweet, we Tumble, we Pownce (or at least we did Pownce),  we feed our friends. Now thanks to Movable Type we are in Motion. They have released a beta for their new social application, Motion, for licensed users of Movable Type Pro.

MySpace announced their data portability initiative way back in May, but haven't had much to say about it since, spending more time on user experience enhancements such as Profile 2.0. Well now they've finally come out of the closet and made some announcements regarding their latest service MySpaceID and connecting to Google's Friend Connect. Should Facebook be looking worried?

OpenID has gotten a big lift this week with two big announcements coming from two very different camps. First, Microsoft has announced that Windows Live will officially support OpenID for login and that users will be able to log into any OpenID site with their LiveID account. Second, Google has announced that it will also be a provider of OpenIDs.

Zoho really wants people to try out their applications. They have opened the doors to users with Google and Yahoo accounts to access Zoho applications without having to create a new username/password. Is this Zoho’s step towards the OpenID? Or a ploy to steal Google Apps users away?

We’ve been waiting for Drupal 6 for some time. But not as long as we reckoned, because its release last week came a little sooner than expected. Don’t get me wrong: I am excited. But I was supposed to be playing golf this morning against this rube accountant acquaintance of mine, who I know from long experience would bet on two flies walking up the wall.

Instead, I had to scratch that to look under the hood of this major new release of the Mothership of community-building Open Source Web CMS. Let this be a lesson to you all. Life is just not fair.

Buytaert et al; this better be good…

The OpenID initiative garners an enormous boost (to the tune of 248 million identities) as the addition of Yahoo! brings the dream of ‘one person, one password’ a big step closer.

Starting January 30th, Yahoo! members will be able to use their Yahoo! identities to sign in to user services at other OpenID 2.0 Web resources.

In the final days of 2007, many a to-do list is being checked off. With all the last minute, “revolutionary” social web updates, you’d think Santa’s elves were part of the operation.

Case in point: OpenID, a universal signature mechanism that eliminates the need for multiple site logins, has been incorporated into Blogger.

Heads up, beta testers! the Drupal team has released Drupal 6.0 beta 3, the latest version of their award winning open source web content management system, and they need you to help dig up those pesky bugs hidden under the surface, pronto!