Plaxo, the online contact manager, is taking the next step in creating a centralizing service that goes against the limited open platforms of other networks and APIs, such as we've seen with Facebook.
By opening its source code for the Online Identity Consolidator, Plaxo offers users more control over their web presence in a portable fashion. Developers can essentially give users a way to aggregate their social network links and share it within other networks. This aims to bring about a level of portability that other networks have yet to allow. While this is
This particular release ties in heavily with Plaxo Pulse, which gave Plaxo users the opportunity to aggregate social networking info within their Plaxo accounts, which can also be exported to supporting websites. With the open source code now available to the community, Plaxo is doing its part to break down the walled garden mentality of sharing amongst social networks, and seems to be looking to own the standard by creating a social networking aggregation platform for doing so.