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Just got an email that Plaxo is discontinuing bare OpenId support and only allowing Google/Yahoo/Hotmail/Facebook...

Just got an email that Plaxo is discontinuing bare OpenId support and only allowing Google/Yahoo/Hotmail/Facebook for login. Despite OpenId's shortcomings it's sad to see things regress.

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Hello from Plaxo,

In an effort to improve our login experience for users, Plaxo.com is simplifying and standardizing our sign in options. As such, Plaxo will discontinue support of generic OpenID logins as of 08/23/2011. Instead we're offering login via Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, or Facebook oAuth -- or you can, of course, create a Plaxo specific account.

How will this affect me?

If you use a Google, Yahoo, Hotmail or Facebook openid to login, just click the appropriate button when signing in. Plaxo will ask for permission to use your account credentials; click accept/grant and then go on using Plaxo as you normally would.

If you use any other openid to login, please visit our Forgot Password and follow the instructions for Reset Password, which will create you a Plaxo specific password.

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I'm really surprised to hear that Plaxo is still around. Do they still have the 2,000 contacts limit?

Jim Turner, Aug 27 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com

I'd recommend everyone with a generic OpenId get their contacts from Plaxo and then kill the account.

If I have to have a Google, Yahoo, Hotmail or Facebook account (all supporting contacts), why should I need Plaxo.

Markus Maex Stumpf, Aug 27 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com

Weird that Plaxo discontinue the OpenId support. Maybe Plaxo feels that OpenId is losing momentum, or people just dont know what the heck is or what to do with OpenId sign in option =)

Henry Saputra, Aug 27 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com

Lame, first I'm hearing about it. But on the other hand, very few people use OpenIDs from small providers and the UI complexity is still an issue so one can't really blame them.

Joseph Smarr, Aug 27 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com

Plaxo never had a 2000 contacts limit.

Joseph Smarr, Aug 27 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com

Plaxo still has some of the best deduping and contact management available today, so I find it pretty weak idea to dump them because of this.

Here's to hoping that OpenId Connect catches on... (cue deprecated, not ready yet meme...)

Paul Lindner, Aug 27 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com

OpenId is still one of the best password-less authentication methods, so I find it a pretty weak idea to drop it because of what? :-)

I am running my own provider, with client/server SSL keys for authentification. Why should I give up my security for another service for which I need passwords again?

And when I tried to use Google OpenId with Facebook, Facebook tried to request all my contacts and Google didn't provide a way to configure/block this.

The idea of the Internet was to be a distributed system. Currently the trends seems to be to fall back to the stone age of a few large BBSs.

Markus Maex Stumpf, Aug 27 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com

Is there a way to browse or search public posts like you can on Twitter? For example I'd like to red some posts of hurricane irene

Jeff Jennings, Aug 27 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com

That's one thing that G+ is lacking right now. The ability to search or hashtag.

Jim Turner, Aug 28 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com