Plaxo, a “smart address book” service, said today it is endorsing standards for online identity and personal information management, OpenID and microformats. Its recently released beta of Plaxo 3.0 has been updated to support these new standards.
Plaxo, which published an OpenID implementation guide encouraging others to embrace the open standard, said users who have an OpenID can use their OpenID credentials to sign-up for or sign-in to the all-new version of Plaxo. The company also intends to become an OpenID provider, offering members the ability to use the personal information they have with Plaxo to access OpenID-enabled sites.
Plaxo added it has implemented the microformats hCard and hCal as part of the all-new Plaxo 3.0. The new public profiles feature uses the hCard format for contact info, giving users the ability use their profile information with a compatible hCard service. Public or shared calendars, also new features, now display events with hCal formatting, giving users the ability to leverage their calendar in other event-related services that support hCal.
Originally posted on July 18, 2007 @ 1:33 pm