Openid News & Articles

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.