Social technology company Gigya has teamed up with content management system (CMS) provider Drupal to provide social plug-ins for Drupal powered websites.Gigya has unveiled ‘Socialize,’ a module developed in conjunction with Drupal’s social publishing system Acquia.  Socialize enables site owners socialise their websites through major social networking tools including Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter and OpenID providers such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail.  According to Gigya, sites that have enabled Socialize have seen site registrations increase by more than 30 per cent.

In an interview with VentureBeat on Thursday, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone elaborated on the company’s goal to put out a revenue model before the end of the year. He said that yes, it will involve offering paid accounts to businesses that use the microblogging platform for marketing, customer relations, publicity, and what-have-you. That’s something Twitter has been hinting at for about a year now.