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Our sister site WebWorkerDaily is out with a collection of good stories of interest to open sourcers. Check out Mike Gunderloy's round-up of nine Firefox extensions optimized for privacy protection (Ostatic has its own collection of good extensions too). WWD also has a good contrarian opinion about OpenID, the single sign-on initiative that many open source projects favor. Finally, ever heard of Calais? It's a Reuters-owned semantic web service that takes in content and returns semantic metadata - lists of people, companies, events, etc. WWD's article discusses Calais Module for Drupal, and Gnosis, a Calais-enabling Firefox extension.

SourceForge, which is behind several media properties including Slashdot, SourceForge.net, Linux.com and Freshmeat.net, is announcing today that it is including OpenID functionality in its SourceForge.net website. OpenID, of course, is an open, decentralized framework for handling digital identities and authentication. It eliminates the need for multiple usernames online. Many big companies, including Google, Yahoo, IBM, and Microsoft (OpenID can be used with Windows CardSpace) employ OpenID. SourceForge's move, and the extent to which it's embracing OpenID, makes it one of the largest implementers yet.