Google supports OpenID with Google Accounts
Google has announced that they are now supporting the OpenID initiative with Google Accounts.
Web users would Google accounts can now log into any third party service that supports OpenID.
Incidentally, Yahoo is already providing similar functionality and Microsoft is soon going to enable it on Windows Live accounts.
Google for now is [...]

Lycos launches OpenSocial based web publishing tool
Lycos has announced the launch of their new web publishing tool which utilizes Google’s OpenSocial API.
This new tool enables the user to develop web sites which utilizes social networking capabilities.
The company also unveiled developer tools named Webon which enables user to develop interactive sites using drag-and-drop and text-based user [...]