Mike Bijon Proposes “TrustBacks”

In an analogy to Pingbacks, Mike Bijon (aka Moogle1) proposes to create a higher-level specification by which bloggers can express trust in other bloggers. Actually, I think it is about people with a URL expressing trust in each other, closely related to URL-based identity. Certainly he says that it would require an identity system and [...]

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He writes: Why can’t sign-on work like this? The user goes to the site’s URL (www.buycrap.com) Before they can buy something, the user has to enter their email username and password (Jason@jasonkolb.com and test123) www.buystuff.com looks up the email server for jasonkolb.com from the domain registrar (using the domain’s MX record). We now have a [...]

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Coté, software industry analyst with RedMonk, posted in detail on what he calls "Identity 2.0, Trustless Redirects, OpenID, LID, and Friends…or, Learning to Spell ‘Centralized’". He investigates, in some detail: OpenID, LID, Sxip and also mentions Livejournal, ClaimID, Yadis, MicroID, and our MyLID.net (linked correctly, but misspelled as MyLID.com). I’m going to cherry-pick a bit [...]

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From a Higgins talk at EclipseCon. Higgins is a software framework that integrates identity data profile data relationship data within and across multiple systems. This quote, and the accompanying 6 slides are the best summary of what Higgins is all about that I have seen so far. Recommended. Download PowerPoint slides.

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