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Beyond Single Sign On

I'm just coming off three days at the Internet Identity Workshop IIW, a workshop I, Kaliya Hamlin, and Doc Searls organize every six months. IIW focuses on what's called "user-centric identity," a set of technologies for building an identity layer for the Internet. (You can read my...

Tags: Security

Blog posts 2007-05-17

Internet Identity Workshop demonstrations steal the show

One of the hallmarks of the Internet Identity Workshop IIW is the high ratio of getting-stuff-done to idle chat and marketing drivel. I remarked at the closing session that this wasnt a workshop in the usual sense of "conference not quite grown up." This really is a...

Tags: Sxipper, Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity, Web Technology, Security, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2006-12-07

Internet Identity Workshop and interop

Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be doing another installment of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2006b) in December. Were back at Computer History Museum, Dec 4-6. The Interenet Identity Workshop is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. User-centric identity starts with the...

Tags: General, IT Management, Security, Web Technology, Internet Identity Workshop, IIW 2005, identity

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Internet Identity Workshop

Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be hosting the second Internet Identity Workshop IIW in Mountain View, CA on May 1-3, 2006. IIW deals with what people are calling user-centric identity and Identity 2.0. LID, OpenID, YADIS, i-names, SXIP, Microsoft's InfoCard system, and the recently announced...

Tags: Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity, Identity 2.0

Blog posts 2006-03-20

Additional Resources

What is it about Microsoft that Yahoo most hates?

What is it about Microsoft that Yahoo most hates?Not hard to understand[i]Whether or not the final word comes down today — and launches the antitrust-investigation phase of the proposed MicroHoo combination — my question remains: Why are Yahoo management and many Yahoo employees so dead-set against becoming part of Microsoft?[/i]Come...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Unix, virus

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Reputation taking center stage

We hold the Internet Identity Workshop twice a year. One way to track the vector of developments in user-centric identity it to plot the gestalt of the workshop each year. Here's my characterization of that vector based on some earlier comments from Johannes Ernst: IIW2005:...

Tags: Internet, Phil Windley, Reputation

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Social nets and identity fragmentation

faberNovel Consulting has mapped out some trends in social networking and digital identity. The research paper PDF here titled "Social network websites: best practices from leading services," compares LinkedIn and Xing and Match.com and Meetic. The research paper also touches on the how identity is changed by...

Tags: Fragmentation, Identity, Digital Identity, faberNovel Consulting, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-02

Linking online personas

People complain about online privacy all the time, but we also suffer from the opposite problem: when you want to link online personas it's impossible to do in a systematic way. Why would you want to link online information? Simple: linking data about ourselves together is how we...

Tags: Blog, Identity, Blogging, Internet, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Conference Payola

I'm one of the organizers of the Internet Identity Workshop and part of my job is asking for sponsorships to help support the workshop. One of the things that's a little surprising to me is how most companies expect that a sponsorship will get them a speaking slot. ...

Tags: Conference, IIW, Internet, Construction, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Social Graphs and Identity Systems

Brad Fitzpatrick, one of the creators of OpenID, has a paper on the social graph problem that posits an open social graph that records public data about relationships as the basis for other social networks. It's worth reading.As Dave Winer points out, even though Brad is right, many people...

Tags: Social Networking, Network, Identity System, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-08-21

XRIs and i-names

Over the last few years, Ive been impressed by a new Internet naming convention called XRI, or eXtensible Resource Identifiers. Long ago, I signed up for an i-name. Ive come to understand them a bit better since that first brush with them. Last...

Tags: Web browsers, RSS, XRI, I-Names

Blog posts 2006-12-18

Intersilo vs. intrasilo identities

The Internet Identity Workshop kicked off today with a lot of anticipation from the participants of what will come of the next few days. By design, the first day is a standard conference-style agenda with speakers to help orient newbies. The next two days will be unconference-style....

Tags: silo, Doc, Web Technology, Security, General

Blog posts 2006-12-04

Adopt OpenID and live!

Fred Stutzman is on a mission to get emerging social networking sites SNS to adopt OpenID. His chief analogy: email addresses are more valuable because theyre open--so would SNS operations if they used an open profile. OpenID is one of the emerging open identity standards that I...

Tags: General, OpenID, Security, social networking, social networking site, social networking sites operator, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Blog posts 2006-11-30

Yahoo and Microsoft support microformats - what chance Google?

At the Supernova workshops today, Yahoo! Local announced that it now supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats "on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews." There will be a lot more aggregation services popping up to take advantage of microformatted data The main benefit of this is...

Tags: microformat, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-21

OSIS links Internet identity systems

David Berlind's not the only member of the Between the Lines team at the ID Mashup this week. I've been here as well, watching the identity happenings. The first two days were traditional conference style, but the third day of the workshop was done open...

Tags: OSIS

Blog posts 2006-06-21

Verisign releases an identity provider

On Wednesday, at the Syndicate conference, VeriSign released the beta version of their Personal Identity Provider. This is a significant advance in the world of "URL-based identity."In a previous entry, I described the many players that were at the recent Internet Identity Workshop. Of note were LID, OpenID, and i-names,...

Tags: OpenID, VeriSign Inc., YADIS

Blog posts 2006-05-18

Reaching Critical Mass

During the dot com boom, one of the most widely referenced business books was Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm. Many back then saw this mostly as the basis for their marketing plan, forgetting that an underlying product was required. But as subsequent books like Malcom Gladwell's Tipping Point indicate, it...

Tags: identity technology

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Unconferences and the value of participatory events

The Internet Identity Workshop ended Wednesday afternoon and I've had a day to decompress. This was really an outstanding event and one I'm proud to have been a part of. Even though I was one of the organizers, along with Kaliya Hamlin and Doc...

Tags: unconference

Blog posts 2006-05-05

The many players at IIW

The Internet Identity Workshop also talked about here has been going on for the past few days. The workshop is centered on "user-centric identity," which is confusing enough to be sure, but when you throw in the various protocols, systems and groups working in it -- well, things get downright...

Tags: OpenID, Identity Metasystem, Lid, identity

Blog posts 2006-05-03

Asking the right questions about identity

We started the Internet Identity Workshop this afternoon at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The first day was intended to be tutorial. We expected 50 people, counted 80 yesterday, and ended up with over 100 who came this afternoon. The additional participation was great...

Tags: centric identity, identity

Blog posts 2006-05-01