Open source types take heed: The Open Web Foundation has been announced at OSCON, reports Brady Forrest from O'Reilly. The goal is to extend out the work being done in groups like OpenID, OAuth, and several emerging opportunities.

The web has replaced or at least overlaid several core business technology practices, and building out a foundation to work towards some usable standards, cross-platform support, and a larger ecosystem is a great step towards ensuring that developers can build to one set of standards, that end users can see functionality that spans several platforms, and that we won't all have to learn a dozen ways to do the same thing.

Read Brady Forrest's announcement article here.