Wow… the tim­ing is so bizarre I can barely believe it.

I stum­bled across this post announc­ing sup­port for OpenID on the Pix­el­soup blog of Jad­ed­Pixel, mak­ers of Shopify. I’m not entirely con­vinced this even makes sense here, but what­ever — it’s fascinating.

On the plus side, Shopify appeared to have dis­ap­peared off the face of the planet (in terms of stag­na­tion) for a cou­ple of months there, but their blog at least is alive and kick­ing. Cer­tainly not for con­sump­tion by tomorrow’s audi­ence, but poten­tially good for some e-commerce applications.

There is no Word­Press of online shop soft­ware, which is slightly irri­tat­ing. A great oppor­tu­nity for a very high pro­file open source project: take OsCom­merce and make it user-friendly and gen­er­ally not-crappily-interfaced right out of the box! Word­Press has done a few inno­v­a­tive fea­ture things, but I reckon most of its suc­cess has been built on the grounds that it’s free soft­ware (heck, it wouldn’t exist if it couldn’t have forked B2) and the work they’ve poured into the interface.

I’m post­ing too much geeky stuff. Some­thing non-geeky to come soon, I hope.