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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!

Though it's been around since 2002, contact management and social networking site Plaxo was seemingly lost in the shuffle as competitors like MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn have risen to prominence in recent history.

Not content to sit on the sidelines, Plaxo hopes that, by embracing OpenID for identity management and microformats for information exchange, they can catch up to peers currently dominating the social networking landscape.

Just in case you have not gotten enough open source cms news in recent days, here is one more item for your plate.

The next version of the popular open source Web CMS platform, Drupal, has entered a code freeze as the development team works toward stabilization. As exciting as this announcement is for Drupal users, what is more interesting is that with this version 6.0 Drupal joins AOL, LiveJournal, Moveable Type v4.0 and Wordpress.com, among others, in supporting the new OpenID authentication standard.