Tonido now lets you roll your own OpenID provider, also debuts Tonido Plug

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First, Tonido let you set up your own, private cloud. It's been an excellent fit at the office, providing plenty of useful collaboration features at no cost and with very little learning curve for our staff.

Now, CodeLathe has rolled out a new plug-in feature which allows your Tonido server to act as an OpenID provider. Instead of relying on someone else's server, just activate the Tonido service and you can being using yourname.tonidoid.com:10001 instead.

As they describe it in the official blog post, "Tonido OpenID is unique in the sense that it is a truly a decentralized and private OpenID provider. What it means is that Tonido OpenID does not use any third party server to manage your identity." To install, just head to your Tonido admin panel and open the apps page.

On to the hardware: TonidoPlug is similar to Pogoplug, which allows you to share your files via the internet. TonidoPlug goes a step further, offering all the core Tonido functions: Photos, Jukebox, Webshare, Workspace, Thots (blog), Explorer, Torrent and Search.

The Plug runs on an embedded Ubuntu Jaunty base, and retails for $99USD. That's not too shabby for a device which adds a ton of functionality to your existing USB hard drive.

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