Not too long ago Dan Connolly made a post called “FOAF and OpenID: two great tastes that taste great together“.
and I agree that FOAF and OpenID work well together. OpenID is technically a URI, an Identity of someone who is in a certain space.
Last week the OpenID people released the next version (2.0) of their specifications “OpenID Finally“.
OpenID 2.0 sees a few additions (made up of two components OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0).
James Henstridge gives an in depth account of the differences in his blog post titled “OpenID 2.0“, with some additional information in his more recent post titled “OpenID 2.0 Specification Approved“.
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For your knowledge OpenLink Software supports OpenID sign-up/login. With ODS you get a personal URI and an OpenID, same address 
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OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS) and platform for Semantic Data Web presence and Integration is what gives you a common URI for you OpenID and your FOAF file.
Example: http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/kidehen exposes my FOAF file which in turn formally states that the same URI is my OpenID and that it is a user level surrogate style identifier (so it formally can be used to identify me without ambiguity to me the person entity: http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this as per the data in my RDF based FOAF Data Graph)