Greg here.  CTO Glynx.

Well we're about 1/2 way through our current 4-iteration development cycle. Products under development are: an update to the Glynx Professional product readying it for public release; the first version of our web-based Glynx Community Edition; and our extention plug-ins.

This week has been particualrly exciting for us as we've got our new website up (duh!) and have just successfully completed our first end-to end test of the Glynx OpenID solution.  For those of you who don't know about OpenID, it's a standard for co-operating web sites to provide authentication services so that user's don't need to have a separate userids and passwords on every web site to which they are registered.

Our goal for Glynx OpenID is to remove the need for passwords for OpenID-supported web sites altogether.

Glynx OpenID is our first departure from our historical focus on telephony / contact management, broadening our support for internet privacy in general.  Using the Glynx OpenID gateway, people will be able to authenticate against OpenID supported websites without entering a password.  We do this by essentially converting the OpenID request into a Glynx P2P message resulting in an allow/deny popup on the user's PC.  So the user visits the OpenID-supported website, types a gateway-formatted version of their Glynx ID, responds to a popup on their PC, and bingo they are authenticated to the website,

Once we move from proof-of-concept into production, our intention is to release an open-source version of the Glynx OpenId gateway which, hopefully, should stimulate it's takeup.